rejected return counted against five efiles

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June 22, 2025
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I successfully e filed four Federal returns this spring. A fifth return was rejected and had to be mailed in.

Today, I attempted to e file a fifth return for another friend (while late, he was getting a refund) and the attempt was rejected with msg that 5 free e files had already been used.

The only possible explanation was that earlier failed attempt was indeed counted towards the five free filings.

taxlady28

Level 10

Unfortunatly that is hoe the program works and return that gets rejected does not make the number of returns filed go up when rejected.

You can file five times and if rejected still counts as one of your five filings.

gregcgAuthor

Level 2

But if it never gets accepted, as in my case since they had to mail in their return, it counted as one of the five.

gregcgAuthor

Level 2

Tech support does not understand and giving wrong information. As soon as you submit a teturn it is counted as one of your five. There is nothing in the program to change your number of returns submitted if the return is rejected.

A rejected return is counted only once...whether or or not it is corrected and resubmitted. In my case, the rejection could not be resolved, the return had to be mailed and the rejection was still counted.