So, two objectives for this feature: (a) TurboTax advises whether joint or separate would be best, and (b) TurboTax doesn't make the customer have to do all that extra data entry for no reasonĪnd even for other situations (besides married couples), it would be really nice, for those of us who file tax returns for other family members / significant others etc, to be able to just have one account and have multiple taxpayers on it. Then if it turns out separate would be better, have TurboTax just submit both returns, without all the hassle of having to create another account and now have to re-enter all the information for one spouse all over again and go back and delete it from the first account. That is, go through all of the interviews for both people, for federal plus whichever states are appropriate, and at the end TurboTax should be able to figure out whether it is more advantageous to the customer to file jointly or separately. What would be useful is for the software (at least the download version but maybe the online version too) to allow to file both ways.

I know we're getting a bit off topic here - but for situations where the multiple returns are for a married couple, still think this is a big miss for TurboTax. The TurboTax desktop CD/Download editions can be used for as many tax returns as needed. Up to 5 User ID's can be associated with one email address. For another tax return using the online editions you would have to create a new account with a New User ID. The TurboTax online editions can only be used for one tax return per account and User ID. I prepare multiple returns in one turbo tax?

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