When I started my taxes, I had paid for and wanted to use TurboTax desktop. I was somehow taken to TurboTax online instead of TurboTax Desktop. After completing inputting all my information, I wanted to print my return to review it. That is when I realized that I was not in Desktop but on TurboTax Online and that it was going to charge me $298 for TurboTax Online instead of the $130 I paid for TurboTax Desktop. So, I had to loose all my work and start over with DeskTop. This was frustrating. I realize that I should have noticed sooner, but I also feel like TurboTax is really pushing the user to try to get them to use the online version. I don't like that.

I have been using turbo tax for over 20 years now - for tax returns of increasing complexity. Overall it has been a good experience. However - with the sunset of the its deductible feature (which I did not realize was going away and resulted in the loss of a bunch of data I had entered) the program seems much less useful and integrated than before. Not sure that I will continue to use it next year - will probably look at other programs to see if anyone still have the deduction integration features.

Is it me, or is Turbotax getting more complicated and controlling? Didn't like the fact that the software added my residence state as a required default for my state return, which doesn't require residents to file a return. I file a non-resident return for another state, and I had to keep toggling from the window that says "see amount" to see the real status of my state return. That was irritating.

The software locked up twice and one time I had to start over from the beginning. Also, I needed to separate in-state and out of state income, which I've done in prior years. This out of state income that wasn't to be included was only about $4k and Turbo Tax changed from me getting a refund from the state to owing the state almost $10k. If anything, this change should have netted me a higher state refund, not cause me to owe more. No matter what changes I made the file wouldn't go back to the previous version and I had to start over from scratch again. I've used Turbo Tax for years and it's always been fairly painless, but needless to say, the process was very frustrating this year.

I've used TurboTax since 2006. Each year they seem to build in more frustration points. This year I had one Crash of the program and 2 errors to fix that had no information relating to what was needed for the data being asked for. It did have a reference to a line in the 2024 tax filing, and my 2024 TurboTax file had nothing in that reference box. The second error was on a 1099-R that had a blank box 16. I had to go search the internet for that answer - you're supposed to put the amount in box 14 into box 16 as well. Oh, and one more big issue - I was not able to import any 1099-DIV's, INT's, or R's, and I've been able to do that in previous versions since it was offered. Looking these issues up on TT Support, I did not find any solutions to these issues. Looks like after 20 years I'll be paying someone next year...

I'd give it 2-stars (or less), but I was able to complete taxes using the "Forms" option; which is slower and more complicated than Easy Step. From one of the updates on (because you're forced to keep updating), it would randomly "hit a snag." I've relied on TurboTax for many, many years and this is the first time I'm not confident that everything is correct.

There is a glitch with the software, and there is no way to report it to have it fixed so I can still use the software to e-file. Now I have to print out my entire return and mail it in. The error is with form 5695 section 17D. The form will not accept an address or the option to check the box to use the address on the return, and the program keeps looking back to this area to fix the form.

The new version is relatively ok to work through, but I had major issues transmitting the forms. The TurboTax program locked up on my computer for hours. Finally had to call and ask for help. The agent I got was nice and super proficient, we finally decided to send the federal forms separately. I will send the state after the feds accept theirs. That is a pain in the butt, but it worked..

delays in all the required reporting forms not available when needed, having to stop and re-start several times to wait on the applicable forms to be readied, updated and uploaded. Caused a three day job to be extended into almost 3 weeks! Never happened before this year's version

Many items are not as intuitive as in past versions. Help topics are not intuitive at all. I cannot find within the desktop version where to file an extension. VERY FRUSTRATING COMPARED TO PRIOR YEARS. I dislike having to sign in within from the desktop version in order to search help topic.