2020 Turbotax Desktop Federal e-filing

[L12345]

I have desktop 2020 Turbotax. It includes Federal e-filing. When e-filing does turbotax directly connect to treasury computers or does go thru an intermediary such as Intuit? TIA

[Kat]

I use Desktop, too.  It is my understanding that our e-filed returns go directly to the IRS.  I do know that a Desktop return is NOT saved on TurboTax servers.  These returns are saved only to your computer's hard drive or another device you've used to backup your files.

[L12345]

Thanks Kat. I've been using turbotax since the DOS days. I think inuit people need to answer my questions.

[Kat]

@L12345 I understand.  I'll post this where TurboTax Moderators will be able to see it and hopefully respond today.

[L12345]

I am very surprised that nobody from Intuit has even attempted to answer this very simple question. It leads me to believe that it is going thru a third party either intuit or somebody else. It seems that intuit is not responding because they don't want people to panic that intuit is collecting their information. 

[Kat]

@L12345 Maybe this will help.  Screenshot from TurboTax website.