Nothing new. There has been a "refund processing fee" for many years---you pay the processing fee if you choose to pay your TurboTax fees by having them deducted from your federal refund instead of paying upfront before you file by using your own credit or debit card. If you are using the download software, you may have made the terrible mistake of saying you would pay the $25 state e-file fee from your federal refund---which ends up costing you the $25 + a $40 processing fee. Do not do that. Look very carefully at the screen that offered you the choice to pay from your refund and you will see another box to the left of it that you can click to pay using your own card.
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