@ andakaka
It looks like you figured it out, but I'll explain a little more for the benefit of others. This confusing situation with Premium Services arises only for California filers, as explained below. I admit that section is confusing. To me it's showing Premium Services (with Audit Defense included) is 44.99, while add-on Audit Defense is 59.99. I'm not sure when @DoninGA made that image above, but it looks like the Audit Defense add-on now costs more than that shown in his image.
If you are in California and choose to pay the state efile fee of 24.99 out of the Federal refund, then that requires Premium Services for 44.99. Premium Services is a bundle of benefits that includes Audit Defense, ID monitoring and restoration, the ability to pay out of the Federal refund, etc. If you were being billed for Premium Services, then you were not being billed for standalone optional purchase of Audit Defense, and thus you cannot remove Audit Defense independently. You have to either decline or remove Premium Service by paying upfront with credit/debit card instead of paying out of the Federal refund.
You may not have actually ended up with Premium Services if you didn't actually select to pay by that method. But for those who end up in it without realizing it, the correct way to remove Premium Services in California and thus decline all the benefits included in it is to choose to simply pay your 24.99 state efile fee by credit/debit card. When you review your order, be sure it is only charging you the 24.99 plus sales tax.
The method to remove Audit Defense discussed in the image above is only for users who electively or accidentally added Audit Defense to their order as an add-on option, and does not apply to California users who are being offered or chose Premium Services in order to pay fees out of the Federal refund.
For those (mostly non-California) filers who want to remove add-on Audit Defense chosen in error (i.e., not the Premium bundle in California invoked by "paying out of Fed refund"), they can remove it like the image shown by DoninGA above. OR they can go to the REVIEW tab, select the subtab "Audit Protection", navigate past the Audit Risk meter, and then scroll way down on the Audit Defense screen and decline Audit Defense.
