I noticed recently that my client's email address is being printed on the 1040 in the signature area. When my client sees this, they will assume the IRS now has their email address. The next time my client gets an email from the "IRS", they may be inclined to open it and click on links that are likely malicious.

Why would Intuit/Proseries give their customers an opportunity to be victimized by potential fraudsters? I have used Proseries for over 15 years and it never printed the email address previously. Why start now?

The IRS has gone to great lengths to notify the public they will NOT email taxpayers because in part of the potential for fraud.

Please programmers, provide a fix so this doesn't happen. In another thread it was suggested this was an update from the summer of 2021. Why was this update necessary?