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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.

The section 469 tax code passive activity rules don't apply to this situation, so things like material participation and less than 7 days average stay don't apply at all in this situation because instead 280A of the tax code determines how the tax loss is treated.    The 280A tax code limits the deductions you can take on the property if your personal use of the property is more than 14 days in a year, and your personal use is also more than 10% of the number of days it was rented that year.   This is what is called a "mixed-use" property, which in this case refers to a property that is a mix of personal and rental use where the personal use exceeds those limits above.  This is when the section 469 passive activity loss limits no longer apply, and the 280A tax code limits apply instead.   If your personal use is over that 14 days and also that 10% line, then certain types of expenses are limited only to your amount of rental income.  And TurboTax will, in that case, correctly reduce expenses like depreciation, property taxes, and mortgage interest if your expenses exceed the amount of rental income.      But there are other types of expenses that are considered to be "direct" expenses that don't get reduced based on the amount of personal use.   These would be expenses that have to do with the business of owning the rental and not expenses for the property itself, such as advertising, legal fees, and property management fees.  If you have a significant amount of those types of fees, those actually can still exceed your rental income and you can still end up with a rental loss to report.    What's really interesting is in this situation where you have a "mixed-use" property with a significant amount of personal use, the passive activity losses of section 469 of the tax code no longer apply and section 280A of the tax code applies instead.  And so you can actually have situations where your personal use of the property allows expenses to offset your other income that normally would be limited by the passive activity rules.  It sounds like that may be happening in your situation.

You can't resolve the excess prior to the tax return due date without the custodian's help. your action generates a 1099-R and will be a problem  if you do it yourself.   Did you submit the "remove excess plus earnings" request to custodian?   @paulahufford1 

Have you completed the Hawaii state interview? There are many questions that allow you to zero out income from sources outside Hawaii.   Also, be sure you have checked the box under Enter Your Hawaii Business ID# to indicate that your non-resident businesses did not operate in Hawaii. Then enter zero for Hawaii Gross Receipts.   If you answer these questions correctly, you should see a loss on Line 16 of your Hawaii N-15.

No you need to wait.  If  it is Rejected you can fix it and resend it.  If it gets Accepted you should not amend or change your return until you get the refund from the original return or your payment has cleared.   How to Amend the current year https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-federal-tax-return-current-year/L7eS6o1qh_US_en_US?uid=lfunevhk