Could be worse, I paid $276 in TurboTax fees plus $317.65 for the convenience of paying my taxes by credit card, which I did merely for points. Sadly, I am paying more for the convenience than I am going to receive in benefits on my credit card. So, it wasn’t a benefit. And, I had the money to pay my taxes in an investment account that I transferred to our checking and immediately paid off the credit card balance. Had I clearly understood the $317.65 fee in advance, I would have just paid from our checking account in the first place. They should be sued in a class action lawsuit. What a rip off. I don’t care who is charging the fee or for what purpose. I know these payment processors make money hand over fist and this is why. It doesn’t cost them a dime more to process a $10k payment than it does a $1k payment. It’s a complete scam. How about something that calculates the charge and shows you what it is going to be and then you have to confirm the actual amount? That would be fair. Asking me to read a bunch of legalese at the end of filing my tax return — which was so complicated it required a law degree — is insult to injury. I detest everything about taxes and all the money grabbers out there looking to profit again and again.
