Filing a state tax return - beware of the Gotcha !!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024 | Rating: 3/5 | Best Sellers in Software
for a number of years while living in florida we used turbotax to prepare our federal income tax returns florida does not have a personal income tax requirement so we purchased the federal only deluxe version from amazon each year and efiled the return in 2023 we moved to colorado which does have a personal income tax in place and as a result i purchased the turbotax 2023 deluxe federal  state version for 5599 excluding colorado sales tax and feeswith the exception of an issue with the fed efile pin that was resolved with just some relatively minor aggravation completing the 2023 fed return and the colorado returns was easy enough  then came the gotchaonly in extremely small print in the product listing on the amazon website is there an indication that there would be an additional fee to efile a state return  furthermore on the back of the turbo tax dvd sleeve again in very small print there is mention of an extra fee to efile a state return but there is no indication of the actual amount of the fee by either amazon or intuit  i admit that i missed both of these “notices” but it does seem that that was the outcome expected by intuitturbotax  in any event the cost for state efile was never revealed upfrontit turns out that the actual fee to efile a state return is equal to almost a 72 premium over and above the amazon purchase price for the fed  state deluxe version ie 4000that amount would also be subject to colorado state sales tax and fees amounting to 348so had i fallen for what seems to me to be a real bait and switch scam i would have ended up paying a total of 10423 to efile our 2023 federal and state income tax returns  that is just simply outrageous  there is no legitimate reason why intuitturbotax needs to hide the truth about the actual cost to send out a state return via efile  you are left in the dark about this significant extra expense until only after completing both returns and by that time you are locked in  our 2023 colorado return was filed using the usps and 195 worth of stampsintuitturbotax is the 800pound gorilla is this presumptuous and predatory “service” industry  we are getting serviced alright just without the smile that usually follows  i’ll be using hr block software next year for sure