Adri J.
Beware of the free version. TurboTax has gone downhill! Where's the communication?
I've been using TurboTax for 15 or so years. I've always been happy until now, which I just experienced multiple failures. Firstly, I had a complicated income year and had no idea where my adjusted gross income would land. They have the most stingy of all free plans, but because I've been loyal, I went with them. I got 80% through my taxes and found out I won't qualify for the free plan. I still wanted to use TurboTax, since I'm familiar with the program and I have my tax history in one place. I tried to use the paid plan and it wouldn't let me! I erased everything, removed cookies from my browser, you name it. I searched the community and found out that once you try using the free plan, you cannot go to the paid version with your account! Your only options are to be redirected to the IRS free file website or clear your cookies and open another account with TurboTax. So now I have 2 accounts and one tax return separate from all others. I wasted hours and hours having to do my taxes twice! Why the hell haven't they communicated this would happen before you enter into the free version? TONS of people have had to do their taxes twice because of their lack of communication. There were issues with the program I haven't seen in the past. Then, how convenient, when it was time to leave a review, it wouldn't let me! I took 30 minutes to leave a detailed review, but it wouldn't let me submit it! It kept saying the text window where I wrote the review was blank! No it wasn't, it was full of text! I had no choice but to close the window. How convenient, now there's no way for me to leave a review on their website. Most of their reviews are 5 stars on the website, but multiple other websites have folks posting very poor reviews. I'm rather suspicious that they wouldn't let me leave a review because mine was a negative one (was 2 stars there, but they lost one for disallowing me to leave a review). I used them this year because I'm under the gun, but I will be using this year to research other options. I don't know what happened, but everything I loved about TurboTax is gone. I suspect they have shady, unethical, greedy management. That's okay, they've lost my business, and I'll be sure to let others know about my experience.


