If you have not e-filed yet--stop. You should pay the $25 state e-file fee with a credit card instead of choosing to pay it from your federal refund. If you choose to pay from your refund, you are allowing the federal refund to go first to a third party bank. That banks takes out the $25 you owe to TurboTax, pockets $45 for itself, and sends the rest of the refund to you. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO THAT. Pay upfront with your own debit or credit card before you e-file. Look really closely at the screens that led up to that. You can choose to pay using a credit card instead of from your refund.
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