The Federal and state refunds do not come together. One comes from the US Treasury and the other from the State Treasurer's office. The chance of them both hitting your bank account on the same day is small.
Then why does turbo tax charge extra to put them together? Like what’s the point and why pay extra? Also how much longer does state take then federal to deposit
Each state has different time-lines for processing and approving returns. Please click here for a list of states and the website to track your state return.
So I am not positive why but I clicked on the button to have my state and federal at the same time not thinking clearly and my federal shows it being deposited today but it has not deposited yet and my state shows the 10th so which one will it be?
Being that your tax returns are processed by two separate entities, your refunds will arrive at different times. To keep track of your state return please click the link below and select your state.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899433-how-do-i-track-my-state-refund
That doesn’t answer the question as to why turbo tax gives you the option of having bother federal and state deposited “together” and if you choose to do so, you are charged an extra fee. I was charged that extra fee and only my federal refund got deposited- what’s going on with that?
STATE AND FEDERAL REFUNDS DO NOT ARRIVE TOGETHER
You misunderstood. You did not pay for your federal and state refunds to arrive together. You may have paid the "refund processing fee" to deduct your TurboTax fees from your federal refund, but that did not mean you would get federal and state refunds simultaneously. Federal and state refunds come from two completely separate entities; it is not possible to coordinate their arrival together.
there's no misunderstanding on our end. TurboTax clearly states would you like to combine your state and federal. and they charge extra. what's the point of putting them together and being charged to put them together, if in fact they are not together and two totally separate tax collectors? it's only $40 to process the tax fees then turbo asked would like to combine your state and federal for a $40 fee which ended up being $40 each for state and federal. it's misleading. I'm just wondering why combine them? for $80? we could have had the same outcome not combining and saving $80
These clients are not wrong because I too chose and paid for the option to recieve both state and federal together and guess what, only state came at this time...
Turbotax not very trustworthy on your behalf to trick hardworking americans into paying extra to recieve both together and literally says " to save you time."
So I paid y'all 150.00 bucks that I could have kept. Way to decieve a single mother during a pandemic. NOT COOL, that took from my kid's mouth. That's an electric bill....
STATE AND FEDERAL REFUNDS DO NOT ARRIVE TOGETHER
You misunderstood or misinterpreted what you read. You did not pay for your federal and state refunds to arrive together. You may have paid the "refund processing fee" to deduct your TurboTax fees from your federal refund, but that did not mean you would get federal and state refunds simultaneously. Federal and state refunds come from two completely separate entities; it is not possible to coordinate their arrival together.
Your state tax due cannot be paid from your federal refund.
It is not possible to pay your state tax due from your federal refund, nor is it possible to pay a federal tax due from a state refund. The federal and state treasuries are completely separate from each other. You may have seen a TurboTax summary of your federal and state amounts that confused you into thinking one was “paying” the other. It is not. The ONLY thing you can pay for from a federal refund is your TurboTax fees if you chose that option.
If you have federal tax due you can pay by mailing your payment with the 1040V voucher, (which has the address printed on it, having the payment taken out of a designated bank account, or you can pay directly on the IRS website.
https://www.irs.gov/payments/direct-pay
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-payments/help/how-can-i-pay-my-federal-taxes/00/26212
No. They are absolutely correct. Clearly you’re not understanding what they’re trying to say. I have filed with TurboTax every year and understand that the federal and state do not ever come together BUT if you yourself walked through the TurboTax prompts while filing your taxes you would see exactly what they mean. It does indeed state that you can “file your federal and state to TOGETHER for a processing fee”… making it seem that you are in fact paying so that you will get them together. Again, I understand this is never the case but usually I file a free form… this year though I had to pay the processing fee due to a retirement contribution credit (so thankfully I had to pay regardless) but after seeing the prompt saying that with paying this fee you can get them simultaneously I was curious and hence googled if this is true which is how I came across this thread/forum. Therefore, as they said this is extremely misleading and shady on TurboTax’s part and for people that did not have to pay a processing fee for any other reason then believing they would get them together is extremely misleading and disappointing.
@ Yaya7676
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This posting from 9 minutes ago is the only posting I see for you. Based on the title of this thread, I assume that's also your question. The Federal refund and state refund come separately. They are from 2 different tax agencies.
@Yaya7676 This is primarily a user to user discussion forum, not Live Chat, nor a direct line to TT Support.
@Bryanrendon10 That is the state taxing authority for the state of CA--that is where you send your state tax return and that is who will send your state income tax refund or collect the payment for your state tax due.
The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) is the agency responsible for collecting state personal income taxes in California. It functions on the state level similarly to the IRS.
State of CA Franchise Tax Board
Ok I’m sorry I’m a little lost , so with that being said that is not my federal refund right ?
@Bryanrendon10 If the refund came from the franchise board it is from the state of CA. It is not your federal refund. Your federal refund will come from the U.S. Treasury.
Okay so I got one which is from the Us Treasury offset program, so I’m just waiting on the state refund right? I received The us treasury & the franchise one I mention
Your state refund was the one that came from the franchise board. There are only two possible income tax refunds--federal and state. Sounds like you received them both. (Unless you lived and worked in some other state and file a state return for that other state too)...
It would be a good idea for you to print out your tax returns and look at them so that you will have a better idea of exactly what you filed and what the refund amounts were.