The most common cause of an increase in tax preparation fees are in-product upgrades. Oftentimes, if your specific tax situation requires tax forms that are contained in your current product, the product will offer an upgrade to the product in which the necessary forms are contained. If the upgrade was completed by mistake search the community using the question, "How to downgrade product?" or you can always clear and start over.
Do you have any other TurboTax fees being deducted from your tax refund? If you selected to have your TurboTax fees deducted from your federal refund, there may be an additional fee for the Refund Processing Service.
You can view a breakdown of your TurboTax charges by signing in to your online return. Once you have signed in and selected to continue your return, select Tools from the My Account drop-down list in the upper right corner. In the pop-up window, select My Fees to get a breakdown of your TurboTax charges.
You can remove any add-ons before you pay by selecting:
• Remove upgrade to Deluxe, Premier, or Home & Business
• Remove MAX
• Remove Refund Processing Service
• Remove TurboTax State
• Remove TurboTax Premium Service
• Remove TurboTax Federal Free Edition PLUS
Click this link to learn how to remove Premium Fees.