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Water-Bug
Explorer
Mar 24, 2014

TurboTax in Florida

I just found out the hard way that when you purchase a TurboTax CD in Florida, it does not include any state income tax software. I've been using TurboTax in Michigan for years and it always comes with free state income tax software. Since Florida has no state income tax, they conveniently omit the ability to download any state income tax software. When you try to download any state income tax software, it asks you for an additional $44.95. They will enable the state tax download free of charge, but it takes about a half an hour to deal with the foriegn tech support. When doing taxes, any unnecessary glitch becomes a major PITA.
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  • Water-Bug's avatar
    Water-Bug
    Explorer
    Mar 25, 2014
    I purchased mine at Walmart and am beginning to think that it may be a Walmart thing as much as a Florida thing. Walmart is known to purchase special production runs of products that are missing a feature or two, which allows them to buy and sell at a lower price than others. Florida not having a state income is probably just an excuse to do it.
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    Water-Bug
    Explorer
    Mar 25, 2014
    We were in BJs Wholesale today and they had both versions of TurboTax Deluxe (with state and without state) but they only had one price on the display. I checked the SKU#s and they were different. I didn't bother taking them to check-out, since I wasn't going to buy either one. Online, BJs has a $10 difference in the price, but TurboTax charges $44.95 to add state to the non-state version.
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    golfknut
    Explorer
    Mar 27, 2014
    I've made a note to purchase it at home before coming down here next winter......

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