@annettewithmarykay wrote:
The IRS allows it with other software. My friend is a CPA and prepares taxes. She said to wait for the new tax efiling season to open up and then transmissions can be done. So IRS allows it but Turbo Tax Software is not set up to connect you to the IRS after the filing season is closed in October.
Professional tax software used by CPAs allows e-filing of past-year returns. Do-it-yourself consumer software, such as TurboTax, does not allow it.
You could ask your CPA friend if she would e-file the 2020 tax return for the person you are helping. But she would have to get the return into her professional software. That might require doing the whole return over from scratch, in which case she would probably want to be paid for doing it.
