So my mom filed my taxes with Turbo Tax on our computer today and they charged the usual $40 to file which gets taken out of my refund but, get this, then they also charged another $40 just to take it out of my refund . They never did that in the past so it must be something new they’ve started which is a bunch of crap! So for those of you who are filing your taxes with Turbo Tax just be aware of this stupid charge.

Did you try calling TurboTax; maybe their billing system decided to start double-dipping. Also read the Terms of Service to see if they added anything about the fees.

Sounds kind of like ATM fees.
Where you have an account at Midwest bank.
You go to a Southwest ATM and they charge you a withdrawal fee.
Then Midwest charges you a fee to transfer the money to Southwest.

But the only thing you're aware of is the fee that showed up on the Southwest ATM screen.

You don't notice the other charge until you look at your statement.

Because it's in the fine print that your bank charges a fee for withdrawals from ATM's from other banks.

By going to an other banks ATM you are doing a business transaction with 2 different banks.

A lot of people don't notice the "double charge" of the withdrawal fee.

Because they just skim their statement and see the one fee on the date of their withdrawal, meanwhile the other fee is days later and not really associated with it, and since it's usually less than 5 bucks, they don't really care all that much.


But I can understand the Turbotax double charge if you're getting your refund via Turbotax.

They are charging you 40 bucks to do the paperwork and send it to the IRS.
Normally, the government would send you a check.
If you choose "take it out of my refund!" then you might be opting for something like:
TurboTax pays you the amount of your refund (probably sooner than the government), the government sends the actual refund money to a TurboTax account instead of to you.

So you're really doing 2 transactions.
1. The paperwork to send to the government to file your tax info and petition for a return.
2. Processing the money from the government.

Therefore, 2 charges.

No. According to my mom she didn’t realize they were going to do that. No, she never called them and we really never read the terms statement because it’s just a bunch of stuff you can hardly understand.

I am getting my done at my local senior center for free this year. I did not like Turbo Tax.

I have used Turbo Tax every year myself for the last 10 years plus and they have always charged the extra if you have it taken out of your refund..

If you pay for it out of your account or a CC then they do not charge the extra..Just the one-time fee. But due to they have to wait on their money if you choose to take it out of the refund, instead of paying ahead of time they charge you the extra~~

Wonder if tax act does this too

They spend billions of dollars to make it as difficult as possible for you to file your taxes free.

No TX Gal they never did that in the past, it was the filing charge only so it must be something new they’ve started. Yeah Boots I have to agree especially when their commercials say “Free, free, free”.

No Julie Turbo Tax does this every year. They charge for having them do your taxes and if you want to pay out of your refund then they charge you for making them wait for their money. We should be able to do that with the IRS. They make us wait for our money so we should be able to charge them a fee for that.

PW like I said a few times already they’ve never charged in the past to take it out of the refund cause it even took my mom by surprise but the filing charge we were already use to, and to think my tax filing is the simple kind.