Since the decade ago that I worked for TurboTax one season I have personally used the Deluxe version that I purchased online as a CD and installed on my PC. Although I live in one of the states that do not have an income tax (yet) I have the ability to download and use one state software should I need it. Any additional state will be charged for by TurboTax. In either case the individual state also charges a filing fee that goes to the state, not TurboTax. I realize this is not intuitive as it seems to me that the actual cost to the state is less when you file electronically instead of printing and mailing. I hope that there is no state that is so far behind technically that they actually have to manually enter the data that is filed electronically. Also, a decade ago my wife worked from home online for a New Your based company and I had to file their state tax. I am not a tax expert at all as my position during the one season I worked for TurboTax was technical support of the software, not tax advice.
