For eighteen years, I have been using Intuit TurboTax to file my taxes. And it just keeps improving—improving, improving, and improving. But, I just found my California 540 returning does not including a copy of Fed 1040-SR. I asked California Franchise Tax Board, The answer is "I need to have a copy of the Fed tax return in my 2025 540 tax return."

Asks a lot of stupid questions about last year's taxes even after I provided last year's data file for import. What exactly am I paying for when I have to do a bunch of legwork manually getting answers out of last year's forms? After 20 years of TurboTax, I've had enough.

Some features are not visible unless I run the program as administrator. Depreciation is difficult for me which is part of the reason why I use Turbo Tax, I had to pull the data myself from 2024 taxes which TT has done for me in the past, I also had to figure my own calculations - TT did not do that for me either. Also had to force the American Opportunity credit - TT would not add it even though I qualified for it.

Asks user to manually fill out information from a 2024 return done on TurboTax and provided to Turbotax 2025 while Intuit claims there is more risk of errors with manual entries. It does this with quite a few items in Federal and a lot of in California return. Also at lot of places it does not provide guidance and refers user to IRS publication!!! Help section sucks and has gotten worse than in past!

I did not engage an expert. I thought I did not need one given 30+ years using the program. Annual changes to the program can be a pain. Even then, I was able to find everything I needed. Being an ancient one, the nonuse of menus, navigating by icon or swipe drives me nuts. Do not eliminate menus please. Reporting is good.

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.

For 2026, just like every previous years, there were persistent errors that prevented filing. Hours of online searches followed by deleting multiple forms and re-running the app finally eliminated the unknown problem ("STDREF marked as estimated", whatever that means). At least I was able to update the app this year, unlike the previous two years. TTax's idea of "help" is asking other users to address workarounds to their bugs rather than actually supporting their product. If you don't expect much you might like the product.

TurboTax Home & Business made filing my return much easier this year. The interview questions were clear, it handled my multiple K‑1s and education forms accurately, and the built‑in explanations helped me understand why each number was entered. I especially liked how it walked me step‑by‑step through complex items like Section 199A and rental property, while still letting me drill down to the actual IRS forms when I wanted to double‑check something. Overall, it gave me confidence that my return was complete and maximized my deductions.

If you are purchasing this product to get free filing and discounted state filing - in addition to using it for a second member of your family/household - DON'T !!! I was still charged $65 to file on top of the $95 for the software that was supposed to include this for Federal $0 and state at -$10

Have been using Turbo Tax to file my returns for years. Don't like this year 2025 filing when the Audit Advantage is free but have to disclose all information to third party. I've declined the offer but kept getting pushed to enter information including my my credit card when I try to pay for State (already used up the free one for another return). Very confusing!!! Will not use Turbo Tax next year.