Turbo Tax software 2009 allows you to firstly, prepare your income tax return independently, & the biggest advantage Turbotax offers is allowing you to efile your return. Electronic filing a tax return is one of the best modes of filing a tax return today

For income tax returns for year 2007, IRS noted that 53 million tax returns were filed electronically. I am sure that the number will go on increasing with time. The reason being that efiling offers so many benefits that definitely it is undoubtedly the best way of getting an easier & faster refund. With Turbotax software, you can file your tax returns electronically which would expedite the processing of your return & you shall receive the refund expressly in almost like in a period of 2-3 weeks. On the basis of free federal filing, some of the states have also accepted Free State tax return filing. Here are the twenty one of the US sates which accept Free State tax return filing. Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New York, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, & West Virginia.

Turbotax software has an agreement with IRS which allows you to file your federal tax return for free. Government also encourages efiling because the returns get processed faster leading to very less/no interest costs, low wages expense to its employees, reduction in cost due to paperless environment. So if you need to prepare your return online, go for TurboTax software 2009.