Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Effective tax rate means absolutely nothing, and TurboTax just confuses users by mentioning it.

I suspect TurboTax is using INCOME taxes, rather than all taxes (penalties and SE tax).  So it may use the tax on Line 47 or 56, and it may use income on Line 38 or 43 (I suspect it would use AGI on Line 38).