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Historically, for the past few years March 1 is when the prices increase, so I assume that's when it will happen again this year.   Actually they "revert" back to the "undiscounted" price.   Currently all the Online products are discounted.   Premium, for instance, is currently discounted at $99 for Federal and $39 for state.   Currently at the product info page it shows the regular undiscounted price with a line through it (which is normally $139 for Federal and $64 for state) and shows the discounted price adjacent to it.   If the price increase occurs on the date it has in the last few years, then on March 1, the prices would revert to that undiscounted price.   Some people will lock in the current price ahead of the increase by paying in advance as I mentioned above.    That also gives them the ability to download/print/view PDFs with all the forms at will.   If someone wants to pay in advance, the way to do that is to go to the left menu column and click on TAX TOOLS, then PRINT CENTER.  Then choose "View, print, download this year's return."   It will ask you to pay for the product fees.  Then whenever you want, you can get a PDF of just the return, the return plus the TurboTax worksheets, or the return plus the government and TurboTax worksheets. 

There is no way to provide even a reasonable estimate. The IRS can take from 4 weeks to over 8 months. Some Ops have reported even longer. One reason might be that due to the government efficiency program, staffing was cut by about 25%.  use the IRS website to check its status https://www.irs.gov/filing/wheres-my-amended-return    variables include whether it was mailed or s-filed. Mailing usually takes longer.   

Update: I now think Turbotax is fine. The medical expenses total depends on income. I had not entered all my income yet. As the income goes up, the ACA out of pocket "moves up" into the medical expenses in the UI. This is because with artificially lower income, the taxpayer responsibility becomes smaller, and vice versa.  More importantly, the total of the two gets put into the Medical Expenses Wks (worksheet). Then that number flows to Schedule A Line 1 and then into states. Lark