Tax Year Prior to 2020: Tax Year Prior to 2020: My Returns were rejected but I was still able to print my returns without paying turbotax fee.

[mfrancella]

Hi, My wife has had an issue getting her homebuyer credit erased from the IRS year after year. Her ex husband kept the house in the divorce. Unfortunately, we will have to mail in our taxes with additional paperwork. . I'm a little confused though. After the rejection, I was able to print up all my tax forms for this year without paying turbotax. I thought for sure I'd have to pay something, not that I'm complaining, just want to make sure that it's SOP.

[DawnC]

Are you using desktop software, or are you using the Free Edition of TurboTax Online?  If you are using a paid version, make sure your forms are clean.  Usually, if you print before you pay, the forms will have a ''do not file'' watermark on them.  

Or maybe you paid earlier?  You can check the My Fees area to see what happened.  

And yes, the homebuyer credit issue can cause you to have to mail in your tax return.  Hopefully, you can get it straightened out with the IRS soon.  

[mfrancella]

Thanks, I checked the forms, no watermarks, clean as a whistle. Does it make any difference that I had chosen to have my fees taken out of my return as opposed to paying up front? If not, I must have just gotten lucky. My fees in the tax tools section do show 40 for state, and 40 for federal.

[WKins2]

If you chose to have your fess debited from your refund and you mail in your return, TurboTax will get their fees when the refund is sent. You will be able to print and mail your return in since you checked to have your fees debited from the refund. 

If the IRS rejects your paper return, you will need to refile. At some point TurboTax will send you a bill for the tax preparation services if they do not receive them from your refund in a set time.