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If you want to list multiple countries, do not choose VARIOUS.    You can list each country individually from the list as long as you don't start with Various.     If you own shares in a mutual fund or a Regulated Investment Company (RIC), then you may simply identify the foreign country as "RIC" rather than identifying each individual country.      

@nataliagru1 You will have to contact TurboTax support for assistance with this problem. Use the key words Billing Issue   Use this phone number and select TurboTax - 1-800-4-INTUIT (1-800-446-8848)

This same thing happened to me. What I saw on my checkout screen was $115.00. I also didnt take a screen shot and woke up the next morning to inuit charging me $300.00+. I have been using turbotax for over 10 years.    If they do not rectify this I will never use their services again and post on reddit absolutely everywhere to warn consumers of their unethical practices.   They are currently denying my request for a refund. Absolutely diabolical. I will continue to fight. But I encourage everyone and anyone reading this post DO NOT USE TURBOTAX THEY WILL CHARGE YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT AND REFUSE TO REFUND YOU.

Once your return is filed, TurboTax has no control over the processing or the timing when the IRS releases your refund.    Your refund could be offset. The IRS and State Governments have the ability to offset a refund to pay for certain past due debts.  You generally will receive a letter stating what the offset was for.    The IRS provides a toll-free number, (800) 304-3107, to call for information about tax offsets.   Here are a few FAQs to help you track your refund: When will I get my federal tax refund? How do I track my state refund? Why does Where's My Refund say "approved" but TurboTax still says "accepted"? Why do some refunds take longer than others? What if my IRS refund is taking longer than 21 days?

You would need to withdrawal the funds from the over funded account as well as the earnings.  You will need to get a Return of Excess Contribution form from the custodian of the account.     The earnings (if any) may be subject to a 10% penalty for early withdrawal.  

TurboTax Online unfortunately still doesn't have a way to correctly report short-term rentals as non-passive, so you can't use TurboTax Online  if you have an STR with an average stay under 7 days with material participation.  But you can with the desktop version of TurboTax, but they don't make it easy.  You have to go into the forms mode on the Schedule E worksheet, then check the boxes "G - Other passive exceptions" and "D - Material Participation".     Hopefully someday TurboTax will add a feature to correctly handle short-term rentals that are non-passive (the "STR loophole" or "STR tax strategy").  By the way, you do have to materially participate in the property, which means you have to either spend 100 hours/year on it if no one else spends more time on it than you do, or 500 hours/year if anyone spends more time on it than you do.   The other thing you have to be aware of with TurboTax is that it also doesn't correctly handle depreciation for short-term rentals.   If you have a short-term rental with an average stay of 30 days or less (note that this is a different standard than the 7 day test for it to be non-passive), then you can't use 27.5 year depreciation because it's considered non-residential, instead it must use a 39 year class.  So to handle that correctly in TurboTax, you have to instead choose the option for an "other asset" for the house, and then walk through the steps there to enter 39 years as the depreciation class.    Hopefully eventually TurboTax will correctly handle short-term rentals, but for now it's a bit of a hassle to make it work correctly for STRs.