Why does Turbo tax charge retired people to do their taxes? we are living on a fixed income. Our taxes should be FREE.... I like the convenance of doing taxes, but you shouldn't charge seniors for doing taxes
While it's nice to have an easy tax site, they will really bend you over the barrel with their sales pitches. "Oh, yes, you need to upgrade for that particular tax item to be noted, and it's only $39!" Not too bad.
Of course, they will add an additional fee on top of that, a processing fee for returns that they don't add onto the free version, which almost doubles the total. Okay.......
They let you know, "Hey, you don't need to get out your wallet! Just add the upgrade as a deduction from your tax returns!" What they do not tell you is that, guess what! That's another $40 or so on top of everything else.
So that "only" $39 quickly triples in cost, unless you end up using a different payment method, which they don't tell you is free because they don't tell you the deduction costs money.
The quality of the service is decent, and the refund that the Pro version processed was higher than the total cost of the upgrade. However, there's a little thing called integrity that's very important. If the cost of the upgrade is $80-120 after all of the hidden fees are sprung out, say so up front!
I have been using TurboTax since I got my first job back in 2016. I am a semester short of graduating with my Accounting Degree and will still use TurboTax to do my returns! It's simple and easy to use. There are several different packages as well and you can receive help from a tax pro if need be.
I'm used to using the desktop version and I found the online version difficult to use. I never figured out how to look at the actual forms in the return until I was finished