Free Turbotax For State Farm Customers – 2008 Tax Year

Once again State Farm is giving away Intuit’s Online TurboTax Free to its customers. They have done this for the last 2 years and it has been very successful. This year is a bit different however. This year you can only get access to the free Tubotax by having a State Farm Bank product added to your online account. Just having a State Farm insurance product isn’t good enough. State Farm bank offers products such as Credit Cards, Savings/Checking accounts and CD’s.

One easy way to get this is to sign up for a State Farm Credit Card. They have no annual fee and once you get your card you can setup access to get onto the State Farm Portal. Once you log in, you will see the following “File Your Taxes For Free” link.

Once you click through that link you will be directed to the TurboTax site with their online product listing and fees. Notice that only TurboTax Basic and Deluxe are Free, however the Premier and Home & Business versions are severely discounted.

Also note that it says “State Additional”. They said that last year too but there was no charge once you completed your taxes. As I get closer to filing my 2008 taxes, I will update this post to verify that the state filing fee is in fact free.

The online version of TurboTax does not require any software install on your part. Everything is kept online securely and is available to print out anytime even after you file your taxes. All your data from the previous years is carried forward to help reduce retyping all that data every year. I have used it for the past 3 years and have had no complaints. One advantage of the online version versus the desktop version is that you get immediate updates. No more waiting to download federal and state updates!

Also be sure to remember that if it takes you a few sessions to complete your taxes, be sure to get into TurboTax through the State Farm link each time. There have been reports that you only need to go through the State Farm link the final time before you file, but just to be safe I would always use the link each time you need to go back in.

If you don’t have any State Farm accounts, Turbo Tax has pretty decent rates to file your taxes (See the TurboTax site for details.) I have used quite a few online tax preparation sites and in my opinion Turbo Tax is definitely the best way to go.

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