Filing multiple returns

[Taxquestionhelp]

I am helping a parent file federal and state taxes this year. I already have turbo tax premiere installed on my computer and tried to install a different version for them but it wouldn’t let me. Can I file their federal and state taxes using the one I already purchased but under another username and account?

[xmasbaby0]

If you are using Premier desktop software on your own hard drive, you do not "log in" or "log out" when you are using the software.  You are using a program that is on your own hard drive.  You launch it from your own computer, go up to the top of your screen, click FILE, and then click NEW RETURN to start a return for your parents.   With desktop download software, you can prepare and e-file up to five federal returns and the state returns that go with them, so you are fine to prepare a return for your parents and e-file it for them.  The only fee might be a state e-file fee of $25, but you can avoid the state e-file fee if you print and mail the state.

And....make sure you SAVE the return and put their name on it so as not to confuse it with your own return.   Always save your work before exiting the program.

[Taxquestionhelp]

Thank you so much for the info. The TurboTax premier come with one state filing, will I have to pay for a second one?  From your comment it sounds like only if I efile both?

[xmasbaby0]

With desktop that has a state program you can prepare state returns for that one state with each federal return if you need to and either e-file them (for a $25 e-file fee) or print and mail them.   You do not pay for preparing the state returns, just for e-filing them.

If you prepare a return for a family member in a different state, then you have to pay for the software for that different state.   If your family members are in the same state, you do not pay for state software twice.