topic Efile of state tax not working - Minnesota in State tax filing

Efile of state tax not working - Minnesota

daveredman — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:11:57 GMT

Federal tax was efiled and rejected. Federal was accepted on second try. I am trying to efile my state tax now, but get message saying e-file requires federal return and that I must select the federal return. But since federal return has been submitted, it is not available to select.

How do I enable the state e-file process?

Re: Efile of state tax not working - Minnesota

LenaH — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 02:26:04 GMT

To e-file your state return:

In TurboTax Online, sign in to your account.
Select Tax Home in the left menu.
Scroll down to Your tax returns & documents.
Select 2020, and then select Add a State (you're not actually adding a state, this just gets you into the right area).
Select File in the left menu (expand your browser window if you don't see this, or select the menu icon in the top left corner).
On the Just one more step screen, follow steps 1 and 2 if you haven't already.
Select the Start button to the right of Step 3.
On the Let's get ready to e-file screen, select I want to e-file.
Follow the instructions to e-file your return.

Re: Efile of state tax not working - Minnesota

TimSecofr — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 02:44:41 GMT

I have a similar situation with both Fed and Cal state TTax Deluxe installed on a PC. After completing both Fed and Cal returns, I eFiled the Fed return only. It was accepted. That was a week or so ago. Today I attempted to eFile the State return only and I got this message:

E-file requires federal return

To e-file, you must also select the federal return.
Click Back to select federal and any other returns you'd like to file.

Any help? Thanks.

Re: Efile of state tax not working - Minnesota

MaryM428 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:53:27 GMT

TurboTax is aware of and investigating the issue with not being able to e-file the state after e-filing the federal. Here is an updated article with a link to get updates when this is resolved:

Unable to e-file state after e-filing federal