This functionality being gone is very bad for my family.
In addition to using the running refund information to make sure my entries were being properly saved, we used the running refund to estimate our taxes before requesting extensions.
We'd put in most of our information (except not all the time-consuming things like detailed deductions) and see if we owed anything, so we would know whether to send an additional payment with the extension request. Then we could take our time until October to handle all the details. That refund/owe information was extremely important functionality for us.
Sure, TurboTax has some other online calculator for this, but it only calculates FEDERAL information and not state, so I guess we're just out of luck there. And I'm guessing it isn't as accurate as the running calculation inside of TurboTax.
I'm also guessing something broke the functionality and they weren't able to get it back in time for tax season. I hope they get it back ASAP.
I see lots of people reconsidering their use of TurboTax, and this really is probably the thing that will push me to start using a tax professional instead of doing this myself. (And I would not get one through TurboTax. We purchased the live Tax Support product last year and got 3 different answers from 3 different TurboTax professionals about the same question. Instead, I'd get recommendations from people in my field for tax professionals.)
I've tried the "solution" listed where you go to "Review," but because we don't enter all of our information when doing our estimates, I have over a dozen things I'd have to review before getting through it. I don't want to review them because I need to know later that they weren't actually done and were only estimates. So I can't even try to get through the review and see if I get my estimate.
Please fix this functionality and put it back in place, Intuit. You're supposed to improve the product each year, not remove the functions we need. At the very least, give us a toggle switch to turn it on for those of us who need it.
Thanks!
