TurboTax: Accounting & invoicing: Refund issues with payments
Users are facing challenges with payment processing and refund policies, leading to dissatisfaction and financial loss. Many report being charged full fees despite issues with service or refunds, creating frustration and a lack of trust in the platforms.
11 different people have complained about this since 22 Oct 2025, most recently on 23 Sept 2026.
- “I did my refund the last three years on this app I’m only 21 years old and when I did my refund this year I was told I was getting $602 back and then they charged me $100 for the assistance and then it says I’m getting…”
- “TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Awful tax refund experience.”
- “They hit me with ridiculous hidden fees charged me over $300 dollars for a refund I filed myself!!!!!”
11 people in 11 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 11 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 11 people using TurboTax: File Your Tax Return, Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and FreshBooks Invoicing App
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 82% of posts are complaints · pain score low (36/100)
- Since
- 22 Oct 2025 → 23 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- TurboTax: File Your Tax Return, Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and FreshBooks Invoicing App
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 18% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint982%
- Request218%
Sources
11 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 3 posts were held back as off-topic; all 11 still count toward the score.
TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Where is my money going I did my refund the last three years on this app I’m only 21 years old and when I did my refund this year I was told I was getting $602 back and then they charged me $100 for the assistance and then it says I’m getting $502 back and everything is all right and…
TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Awful tax refund experience Turbo tax sucks!! They don’t have enough workers to answer calls or even chat messages. My tax return is always held longer than usually with them. I usually use tax act and as soon as my refund is sent I receive It . But the processing company TurboTax uses…
TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Hidden fees a trickery They hit me with ridiculous hidden fees charged me over $300 dollars for a refund I filed myself!!!!! I did call to ask a question but that was it. Be careful when doing that because they will charge you over $200!!!!!! They get you with hidden fees don't trust…
…to charge customers a subscription fee, the app should actually work. I hope the company fixes this issue and provides a refund or credit for the time the service has been unusable.
Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker — Racist This company took my money for the subscription and then canceled my account and didn’t refund subscription payment. This company also approved my account for bank payments then canceled my account bc I didn’t submit my identification in time to them as a small black owned…
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Why did it move?
Score 36.9 → 37.0 · 01 Oct 2026, 16:00 → 17:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Accounting & invoicing: Refund issues with payments a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 11 different people described it independently, in 11 mentions, the earliest from 22 Oct 2025 and the most recent from 23 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 51/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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