Yes too expensive
Mine was going to be about double what it cost me last year for what seems to be the same returns
federal and 2 state returns (with a rental and capital gains taxes) $190 less less a $15 I found online
You pay for the convenience of the auto loading of data. Except this year I couldn’t get turbo tax to load my investment data that it had done seamlessly last year - same broker no change
without the convenience I wasn’t going to get ripped off. I looked at tax slayer and didn’t find it user friendly enough
Then I came across freetaxusa.com - and I knew there was more manual entry because they tell you what it does and does not do. Federal return is free regardless of income and my state returns were $15 each less a 10% discount. So I paid less than $30 this year including tax 🙂
The funny thing is I now know a lot more about how my state taxes are calculated and was happy to learn which was a weird benefit I was not expecting
i think adding in my w2’s and my capital gains info maybe added about an hour in total for me but I learned what was required and how things are worked out
i would recommend that many do a reality check and look elsewhere
