If you’re planning to file electronically through e-file, you won’t be able to e-file your state taxes before you e-file your federal taxes. Generally, e-file programs require you to file your federal return first, then file any state returns.

Can I file state and not federal TurboTax?

Yes. You can file them separately. Although state returns can be e-filed with your federal return (or after your federal return has already been accepted), it’s no longer possible to e-file state returns before the federal.

Can a state e-file a federal tax return?

The linked state return will be e-filed to the IRS and the IRS will send along the e-file to the state tax agency. For states that permit it, if the preparer e-files a state by itself without e-filing the federal return – for whatever reason – the state e-file will be sent unlinked.

Do you have to have software to file state taxes?

Though free federal e-files are included with your software, you’ll have to pay to e-file your state taxes. They aren’t included in the cost of your federal or state programs and don’t count as one of your five free federal e-files.

Do you have to efile Illinois state tax return?

Prepare and eFile IL – Illinois – and IRS State Tax Returns now including resident, nonresident, or part-year resident returns. However, the IRS and the respective State Tax Agencies require you to e-file a Federal Income Tax Return at the same time you e-file a State Tax Return. This is not an eFile.com policy but an IRS and State Agency policy.

What happens if a state e file is rejected?

For states that permit it, if the preparer e-files a state by itself without e-filing the federal return – for whatever reason – the state e-file will be sent unlinked. This means that whether or not the federal return is ever e-filed or rejected, the state e-file is sent to the IRS then then from the IRS to the state tax agency.