e-filing

[bstaxes]

I have been e-filing for awhile and I thought I had to push the button to send the return. After reading a comment on first time efiling, it seems that a data entry clerk can send the efile. I believe the person who wrote that. I can remember, I think (old age you know), in a course I took long time ago someone else saying that their clerk pushed the button after they had the check and the 8879. Could someone please reconfirm this so I can have some free time to do returns this season.

Thanks.

[GeneInAlabama]

I am a one horse operation and don't have anyone to push the button for me, but I don't see that it matters who actually transmits the return as long as the one who prepared the return signs the 8879. How could the IRS possibly enforce such a rule if they required the preparer to be the one to actually transmit the return?

[taxxcpa]

I am a one horse operation and don't have anyone to push the button for me, but I don't see that it matters who actually transmits the return as long as the one who prepared the return signs the 8879. How could the IRS possibly enforce such a rule if they required the preparer to be the one to actually transmit the return?

Is a button-pusher really necessary? By the time I check to see if the return will e-file according to the tax software, the button pushing is not a time-consuming task.