@DaveF1006
You make it sound as if we should be thankful for TurboTax finally fixing a problem which they did not alert paid customers to but which a user on this forum figured out how to do on a PC before TurboTax even began to suggest a date for a solution. The only information we received from TurboTax when I first tried to file was that we were required to file a paper return and that we could not e-file, when the IRS was pleading with taxpayers to e-file and anyone who read or watched the news was aware there were millions of prior year paper tax returns the IRS had not processed. After users on this forum began communicating about this problem and complaining to TurboTax, TurboTax finally came up with a solution for everyone, and even then some users continued to have problems. Granted it is a new form, but not a particularly difficult one to complete since the information is already in prior year TurboTax users' TurboTax files, and certainly it is possible the IRS didn't coordinate with TurboTax regarding this form as soon as they could have, but the printed form and instructions are dated December 2020 and have been available on the IRS website for some time. Looking at my tax files, I have files in the *.tax format TurboTax uses since at least 1997, and I find TurboTax's lack of communication with and apologies to its users on this issue inexcusable.
