You can file an extension online using TurboTax Easy Extension found here.
Log in using your account information and proceed through the prompts. Please be aware extending your return only extends the filing due date of your actual return. Any tax due should be made by the April 15th filing due date to avoid any late filing penalties.
Will this link allow users to efile the extension? When I tried this link several days ago I kept getting instructions that I needed to PRINT and MAIL my extension.
Also, Why CAN'T we efile from TurboTax on our desktop computers (where all my info is, because I already started on my taxes)?
I also had this same question. I ended up having to go to the online version where none of my information was and complete the 4868. I did get it done but was aggravated by this.
I know. Exactly. "If form 4868 = true, then efile=free" is NOT complicated code.
TurboTax doesn't HAVE to be that badly designed. I have a feeling that the people within Intuit making these decisions are living in their own little world (not uncommon in IT), but because TurboTax was so early to the market they have been able to get away with a lot of poor business decisions and still make money.
IBM suffered a lot of the same problems until they had a rather significant purge of the old guard; by the early 2000s there were mid-level management types who couldn't manipulate the basic attributes of Power Point long after drug sales reps were making it sing, dance, and play videos. I think Intuit has the same structural problem, demonstrated by the fact that they are SO unresponsive to the basic needs of their customers.
E-filing; it's a thing.