@mslatinlady wrote:
many Turbotax employees (at least I thought they worked for Turbotax) kept telling me that: “Turbotax does not SEND returns to the states or to the IRS. The states and the IRS need to "access" Turbotax servers and “pull” the returns from the Turbotax servers.”
So, IceCMan, is this true? Can you explain the “e-filing” process, and how it works? Who "sends" and how are they received by the IRS and the States? (California specifically)
Fed and state is different. E-file provides make the tax returns available on a special server that the IRS can "poll" in a random order to "pull" the tax returns to the IRS e-file server.
Some states do the same thing. Some states want the return sent to them by the e-file provider and some states contract with the IRS for the IRS to pull both Fed and state return and then the IRS forwards it to the state,
This is defined in the e-file specifications publications available to e-file providers.
This is all changeable and at time goes on more states have upgraded there systems and are doing their own polling.
**Disclaimer: This post is for discussion purposes only and is NOT tax advice. The author takes no responsibility for the accuracy of any information in this post.**
