Once you are SURE you have entered in all your income and expenses then proceed to the REVIEW tab ... if you pass that then complete all 3 steps in the FILE tab then click on the big orange TRANSMIT now button.
BUT here is a WARNING .....
The IRS has announced Jan 28
as the starting date for 2018 tax returns.
Although TurboTax is accepting some e-filed
returns early they will NOT be e-filed to the IRS which will not process any
return until they open for e-fileing. TurboTax stores those
returns filed early until the IRS opens for business, only then will
you get an e-mail telling you if the return was accepted or rejected by the
IRS.
Only the simplest returns can be transmitted to
TurboTax early. Some forms will not be finalized until
Jan 25 and some later then that.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1908854-forms-availability-table-for-turbotax-federal-products-exc...
Why does TurboTax allow early
filing? Because their competitors do - It is a marketing ploy.
Filing early with TurboTax before the IRS
opens is a really BAD IDEA.
1) If you discover something that is wrong on
your return, receive a W-2 that is different, receive some other tax document
that was not on the return that you filed then there is NOTHING that you can do
about it other than wait to see if the IRS accepts or rejects the return after
they open. If rejected you can correct and file again, but if
accepted then the only remedy is to amend which can take 4 months to process.
2) You must remember to check back after the IRS
opens (or check for an e-mail) to confirm that the IRS has accepted or rejected
the return. If rejected, then it was never filed at all and must be
corrected and re-filed. Every year many taxpayers that file early,
forget to check back and only discover months later that they never actually
filed because if was rejected by the IRS but they had forgotten about checking
back after filing with TurboTax.
3) While the IRS does conduct some per-opening
polling tests and does accept some returns early, they will not process those
until after the official opening. There is a reason to test and that
is to discover any problems with it's systems. A couple of years ago
a test went bad and several thousand "test" returns were
lost. The IRS was able to recover those but it delayed refunds
for some by months.
There is no real advantage to file before the
IRS opens but there are several disadvantages to do so.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4520625-my-refund-was-supposed-to-be-efiled-the-irs-has-not-reciev...
