When you use Online TurboTax, you get one return per fee. Each return needs its own account and user ID. If you use the same account and user ID for a second return, you overwrite the first one and lose it forever.
When you use Desktop TurboTax, which you install from a CD or download to your own hard drive, you can prepare and e-file multiple returns for the cost of the software. You can e-file up to 5 Federal returns—more if you mail the additional ones. If you have multiple returns to prepare for family members, Desktop is more cost effective. If you use online TurboTax, you do have to have a separate account and user ID for each person.
If you are preparing a tax return for someone other than yourself, you have to remember that the software does not know who is sitting at the keyboard. The questions are for the person whose tax return is being prepared--not "you." Answer the questions as if you are "Aunt Betty" , “Dad,” ”Grandma” or who
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