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TurboTax lets you go through the entire process of entering information and telling you your refund amount before charging you.
I wasn’t sure if I trusted myself with the free system, so I did my semi-complicated taxes through TurboTax until I reached the payment screen, and then went and did them in the free system and confirmed that the dollar amounts matched. Then I submitted through the free system.
Next year, I’ll probably just trust myself more, so Intuit doesn’t get my data.
I tried to go that route and my TurboTax refund was much bigger than FTU. I wanted to transfer all my answers to FTU, but TurboTax wouldn’t let me go back and look at my individual answers without starting over. Seems like they got wise.
TurboTax lets you go through the entire process of entering information and telling you your refund amount before charging you.
I wasn’t sure if I trusted myself with the free system, so I did my semi-complicated taxes through TurboTax until I reached the payment screen, and then went and did them in the free system and confirmed that the dollar amounts matched. Then I submitted through the free system.
Next year, I’ll probably just trust myself more, so Intuit doesn’t get my data.
I tried to go that route and my TurboTax refund was much bigger than FTU. I wanted to transfer all my answers to FTU, but TurboTax wouldn’t let me go back and look at my individual answers without starting over. Seems like they got wise.