@ youcangetit2025 wrote:
I'm having a hard time getting to where I can pay the price that I was given whenever I first went online to start my taxes. If I'm not mistaken you guys just settled a class action lawsuit on this very same thing. I was told $79 and now I'm being tricked into $188 I don't think so I'll call the Federal communication commission and get them involved now.
This is mainly a user community forum. I'm a fellow user and don't work for TurboTax, but I can tell you a bit about how their prices work. They say their prices can change at any time. Historically, it has worked like this:
In the early half of filing season, they offer discounted prices. Then historically on March 1 the prices revert to the late-season pricing. So prices went up yesterday unless paid prior to then. As I look now at the product pages, it looks like they may go up yet again at some point. To make it more confusing, they occasionally run a special discount that lasts a few days.
Are you using the Premium edition? $188 sounds like the March 1 pricing for the Premium edition with both a Federal and state return.
Starting March 1 this is what is currently showing:
Premium Federal $129
Premium State $59
From the pricing page it looks like it may increase again at some point. When the next price increase occurs, it looks like the undiscounted price for Premium will become $139 for Federal and $64 for state.
Here's the current Premium product page and pricing (the slashed price is the late-season price if there was no discount)
https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/premium/
I don't know if you would qualify for the Deluxe Edition (it depends on the situations in your return), but the Deluxe edition also increased on March 1, and here's the current Deluxe pricing:
Deluxe Federal $69
Deluxe State $59
If you qualify for Deluxe, you may be able to downgrade. Online Deluxe cannot handle Schedule C (business with expenses), Schedule D for capital gains/losses from stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc., Schedule E for Rentals/royalty, or Schedule F, and cannot enter K-1.
