High Fees for Simple Tax Filing
Users are frustrated with TurboTax due to unexpected fees, poor service quality, and a lack of transparency in pricing. Many feel that the platform is overpriced and has become increasingly difficult to navigate, leading to a negative overall experience.
25 people in 25 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 25 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 25 people using TurboTax: File Your Tax Return
- What goes wrong
- Too expensive4% of posts
- Missing feature4% of posts
- Wastes time4% of posts
- How bad
- 80% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 08 Jun 2026 → 07 Aug 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
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 16% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- This is a public service: users cannot choose another provider, so the pain does not turn into a market by itself.
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
- Complaint2080%
- Request416%
- About price14%
Sources
25 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 2 posts were held back as off-topic; all 25 still count toward the score.
TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Overpriced At this point, TurboTax has absolutely no reason to be charging the amount of money that they do. I paid 160$ this year when I could have done my taxes for free on FreetaxUSA. I’ve used TurboTax for 6 years but this will be my last time EVER. Super frustrating
FrustratedToo expensive…ust don't want it to get lost in the mail), and it takes min 1hr now. Annoying, Tedious, Expensive.
Frustrated…I went over it multiple times and it would not let me file for free. They charged me $168 turns out I’ve been missing out on money from what they said I should get back. Just do your own taxes and send it to the irs
Missing featureTurboTax: File Your Tax Return — Scammy Don’t waste your time there’s better free tax filing programs and their ‘experts’ are scammers. I’d give no stars if I could. They charged me for a tax expert for a tax year I didn’t need and when they couldn’t get the payment they auto drafted from my savings account and now I…
…es now require an extra $75 fee when they've been the same each year. Please do yourself a favor and use another tax service instead of wasting time with TurboTax only for them to tell you last minute you have to pay an extra fee because they felt like it.
Wastes time
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 26.9 → 22.9 · 24 Sept 2026, 07:00 → 08:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is High Fees for Simple Tax Filing 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?
- 25 different people described it independently, in 25 mentions, the earliest from 08 Jun 2026 and the most recent from 07 Aug 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: quiet — no recent mentions. Momentum is 28/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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