My tax return this year is 350 pages long. The reason is because turbo tax lists every single stock transaction individually instead of summarizing them by short term or long term and gains and losses per each brokerage account. But because TT insists on listing each one individually, creating 100's of pages of info, it is always the case that there is enough missing info, no matter how trivial, in the downloads from the brokerage firms, that an e-file filter rejects the return for e-file, and you have to print it out and mail a physical copy.
The conclusion seems to be that if you have significant equities, and you do NOT want to file an actual physical return that is the size of a telephone book (remember those?) with the IRS, turbo tax is not useful for you. It will not allow you to e-file. They won't tell you that ahead of time, and they do not seem interested in fixing the problem. And of course, there is no help desk staffed by human beings that will respond to you either. Other than that, it's great.
