State Farm To Offer Free TurboTax for 2009 Taxes

As it has done for the past 2 years, State Farm is giving away Intuit’s Online TurboTax Free to its customers. Like last year, must have a banking product with them such as a credit card or checking/savings account. Just having insurance isn’t good enough to have access to the free Turbo Tax.

They are giving you free access to TurboTax Basic and Deluxe along with free eFilie. If you need to use the Premeri of Home & Business version you must pay $20 and $40 respectively.

To get access to the free versions, you need to log into your StateFarm.com account. Once you are on your account summary page, you should see the following icon below:

Click on it and it will then take you to the TurboTax.com home page.

Since the discount is based on the URL that you use to get to TurboTax.com I beleive you only need to click on that link the day you are actually filing, but to be sure, I reccomend you go through the State Farm link each time you need to access your returns just in case.

Since I have a State Farm Visa card, I qualify for this. I really think this is a nice perk since filing my taxes would have cost around $45 normally, so this can be considered a State Farm Visa Bonus that keeps giving every year!!

If you are not a State Farm customer, check out TurboTax.com to file your taxes as their prices are still very reasonable.

Free $5 From Ebates Rebate Site

Another site I reguraly use when shopping online is Ebates. This site pays you a rebate back from shopping at a particular online store.

For example, I love Old Navy T-Shirts as they seem to last forever no matter how many times you wash them. When you click on the “Old Navy” link from Ebates, it takes you to the Old Navy site where you will automatically get back a 4% rebate in your Ebates account on any purchases made at Old Navy. So if I were to spend $100 I would get a $4 rebate in my account.

The rebate %’s vary by store, but they seem to have most of the popular online stores in their list.

It usually takes 90 days for the rebate to be available to withdraw and it comes in the form of a check mailed to your home after you ask for a check.

What is the catch? None. Many websites give rebates back to people that direct shoppers to them. They are usually called associate programs. Ebates just shares part of that rebate with you. If you do a lot of online shopping, this is something you should really take a look at.

Currently Ebates is offering a $5 Bonus for opening an account with them. There are no fees associated with the account, you just get paid the more you use it.

What you need to do: Open an account with Ebates
Obligation: None
Account Fees: None
Initial Reward (if any): $5.00 for opening an account
Money to get started: None – but you have to shop online to earn more rebates