@fanfare not necessarily. that is the crazy thing about TT's pricing policy for desktop.
The first return is the purchase price of the software - the remaining tax return are free which is the same as Free File. Further, Free File only provides the state tax return for 20 states.
In this situation, the inconvience of using TT is that the tax return has to be mailed. the inconvenience of Free File (assuming there is a State Tax return outside the 20 provided ), is figuring out how to file the State Tax return.
