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@TaxGuyBill wrote:

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I think that is true for all software this year (IRS didn't set it up as a 'real' e-fileable form this year).

But why would it take Intuit EIGHT WEEKS longer than Drake to add this to the program?  EIGHT WEEKS longer (not to mention that I think Drake had the draft form before that).

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I suspect you're right about all of them being attachments.  Intuit's position is fairly indefensible at this point.  At best they could argue that the final instructions weren't released until 2/15 but now we're nearly two weeks beyond that point.  Practically every other tax software did their programming based on the draft forms that were released last year and just marked it as "not ready for efile".  Then when the form went final they just had to make sure nothing changed and turn off the "not ready" status.  For whatever reason, the ProSeries developers did not take this approach.

I have to place at least some of the blame on the IRS.  I think having a "forever" form for disaster distributions is a great idea but I think implementing it in the middle of a pandemic when the agency is unable to answer the phone or open the mail for 9 months is idiotic.