If you already spent the money on TT and one of the joint taxpayers is deceased then you must enter the surviving taxpayer as the first one and the deceased taxpayer second in order to get the the return to be accepted. It will fail every time if the deceased taxpayer is first. Apparently, the social security number of the deceased taxpayer is flagged. As I mentioned above, if you already completed the return and it rejected, you need to change the names around and it also requires additional effort.
TT gives you a false error for this situation. I have read that HR Block has the same problem. Some of you have suggested that FreeTaxUSA works. For most returns it is free and you only have to pay for the state. Give it a try. I believe that the software and your return reside on their servers and you download a copy of your finished return. I will leave it up to those of you who have used it, to give guidance. In this world of hacked information, I prefer to keep the software and returns on my desktop. But, that is the personal choice of the user. TT should fix this issue at the beginning of the return when you are double checking the taxpayer personal information and long before you enter all the other tax info.
