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TurboTax Premier free for some Fidelity customers (Premium Services, Active Traders, Private Client), YMMV (2020 tax year thread)

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It's back! Select Fidelity customers are eligible to receive a free copy of TurboTax Premier. In general, it seems to be Premium Services (>$250k) customers who are also Active Traders or Private Client Group customers (> $1m in assets at Fidelity, not all 401(k)), but not everyone seems to get it. The Fidelity website [fidelity.com] has a chart with some confusing wording at the bottom of the page (I've included it at the bottom of this post).

To see if you have the offer, login to your account and go to the Summary page if it's not your default (Accounts & Trade -> Portfolio). If eligible, you will see a box titled "Get TurboTax® Online Premier free" on the right side towards the bottom of the page with a link to go to the TurboTax site to "purchase" (see the attached image to see what it looks like).

You can either use the online version, or look towards the bottom of the page for "Download Install TurboTax software on your computer." and you can get the downloadable version of Premier for free. You can get Windows or Mac, or both (just say you want to add additional products after adding one version to your cart). If you need Home & Business, there is no discount on the website but once you install the Premier download, you can upgrade for only $10 (Help -> Upgrade TurboTax). There is no comparable cheap upgrade if you use the online version, you will pay $70 fo the Self Employed version.

With the download version, one state is included but state e-file is not free (unless you're in NY, where it is free by law). Additional states are an extra charge (plus e-file fee, so $60 in total) in the download version. If you use the online version, it appears that you can file multiple states for free, so that is definitely something to consider if you need to file in more than one state.

If you don't qualify for the free copy, there is a $20 off offer, but you can do better elsewhere.

If you are a good Fidelity customer and do not have the free offer, some people have reported contacting their rep and being given an account credit after buying it on their own. YMMV on that.

I don't see a thread from 2019 (I was on a cruise when it was released in January, remember those?) but here is the link to the 2018 thread.

http://www.fidelity.com

Fine print of who qualifies from the page referenced above:

Certain covered clients: Private Wealth Management (PWM) client and owns one or more nonretirement account(s) or PCG, Premium, and ATS clients with minimum assets of either: PWI assets of $1,000,000 or more and PI assets of at least $500,000 and own one or more nonretirement account or Nonretirement assets $1,000,000 or more. Applies to Federal returns and one state return only. Cost of additional state returns are the responsibility of the client.

Definitions:
PWI = Personal & Workplace Investments (aka 401k/pension/ESPP/etc.)
PI = Personal Investments (individual, joint, IRA, Roth IRA, etc. accounts)
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Created 12-17-2020 at 08:07 AM by MisterBill
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jschuman01
12-19-2020 at 06:11 PM.
12-19-2020 at 06:11 PM.
Quote from Tedclu :
I order 5x it came with 5 codes. Does each code only work once?
No, in the past, I have used the same codes for family members without issues. I read that 5 was the limit per code.
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jschuman01
12-19-2020 at 06:15 PM.
12-19-2020 at 06:15 PM.
Quote from dedezu :
Only have a ira account opened with 100k, cannot see this offer
Yes, I believe the idea is to promote Turbotax as an easy way to enter your taxable trades. With only an IRA, no taxable trades to report, so they skip you.
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jaadugar
12-19-2020 at 06:18 PM.
12-19-2020 at 06:18 PM.
If anyone has a spare code, please share. Will rep and appreciate the code.
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MisterBill
12-19-2020 at 07:36 PM.
12-19-2020 at 07:36 PM.
Quote from jaadugar :
If anyone has a spare code, please share. Will rep and appreciate the code.
Wow, a whole rep for giving you a copy you're not entitled to.
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MisterBill
12-19-2020 at 07:37 PM.
12-19-2020 at 07:37 PM.
Quote from jschuman01 :
This happened to me last year or so. I called in and stated I usually received the free turbotax offer and this year I did not. After a few minutes of deciding if I was a great customer or not, they just gave me an account credit for the cost of the Turbotax product. So, they do adjust for their money making customers.
However, that gets reported on a 1099, so you have to pay taxes on it.
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MisterBill
12-19-2020 at 07:38 PM.
12-19-2020 at 07:38 PM.
Quote from Tedclu :
I order 5x it came with 5 codes. Does each code only work once?
Each code is good for five installs, same as a copy that you purchase.

Quote from MadPup :
Ha! That I don't know, I suspect it's a glitch.
Not a glitch. You get a separate code for each copy that you "purchase".
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MisterBill
12-19-2020 at 07:40 PM.
12-19-2020 at 07:40 PM.
Quote from dedezu :
Only have a ira account opened with 100k, cannot see this offer
Quote from jschuman01 :
Yes, I believe the idea is to promote Turbotax as an easy way to enter your taxable trades. With only an IRA, no taxable trades to report, so they skip you.
100k is not even close to what you need to get the offer. You could have the $1m in an IRA and qualify for the offer, even though you wouldn't have to report the stock transactions. But it certainly makes sense in terms of giving it to Active Traders, I had not thought about that.
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12-19-2020 at 07:41 PM.
12-19-2020 at 07:41 PM.
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I got it this year for the first time! Thanks OP. Repped.
Congrats!
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CrimsonStar283
12-20-2020 at 07:27 AM.
12-20-2020 at 07:27 AM.
Quote from kennlee :
I qualified for this deal (abased on the requirements) and there is no link. I emailed Fidelity, and they responded that they were still discussing this, but no decision had been made. They said that I could check back mid-January. Doesn't work for me as I need to complete my initial assessment this calendar year.
I too needed an assessment asap and didn't qualify for the free deal. So instead I just logged into the online version (which is free until filing) and completed names/addresses with dummy info but used real numbers for the rest. Obviously not ideal, but gave me enough of an indicator as to what I needed to adjust before year-end.

If anyone meets the requirements but calls into Fid and doesn't get an immediate resolution, I wouldn't hold my breath about it getting resolved later. I wouldn't accept that response and would continue requesting escalations and holding. I've work in the industry and retail customers are considered small fries, even if they have a couple mil in the account. You really need about $10M+ to get anyone's attention, and $50M+ really gets the ball rolling. But if we had someone escalate, we were required to take it as far as it will go.

It looks like both Costco and Amazon will have TT on sale starting 12/26. It would be better to get it free, but that's an alternative.
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VioletGoat9744
12-20-2020 at 08:11 AM.
12-20-2020 at 08:11 AM.
https://softwarediscountusa.com/
This website sells the premier version for $59.99 for those who need it earlier than the Costco sale.
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pink_niru
12-21-2020 at 05:11 AM.
12-21-2020 at 05:11 AM.
someone have spare code? Please share..TIA
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kennlee
12-21-2020 at 11:13 AM.
12-21-2020 at 11:13 AM.
Quote from jschuman01 :
This happened to me last year or so. I called in and stated I usually received the free turbotax offer and this year I did not. After a few minutes of deciding if I was a great customer or not, they just gave me an account credit for the cost of the Turbotax product. So, they do adjust for their money making customers.

Turns out that I missed this year's and last year's annual review, so they marked me as "uncovered". They will fix it early January, but I plan to have my estimated payments completed by then. Maybe I'll call back to see if I can get the credit as you did.
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cmpe
12-21-2020 at 11:52 AM.
12-21-2020 at 11:52 AM.
For the online version, could someone confirm that all I need to do is click through the link and log into my existing TT account for it to be enabled for when I do actually file in a couple of months?

I don't see a place where I can see that the promo has been applied.
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seawolf
12-21-2020 at 01:35 PM.
12-21-2020 at 01:35 PM.
Quote from MisterBill :
Wow, a whole rep for giving you a copy you're not entitled to.
It's like a targeted ring flood light camera SD earlier this year involving unique codes. The thread was useful for the first couple of pages but then de-evolved into a pages and pages of panhandling for a code posts.
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jschuman01
12-21-2020 at 01:36 PM.
12-21-2020 at 01:36 PM.
Quote from cmpe :
For the online version, could someone confirm that all I need to do is click through the link and log into my existing TT account for it to be enabled for when I do actually file in a couple of months?

I don't see a place where I can see that the promo has been applied.
Yes, that's it. You may also want to at start your return for 2020, just to make sure.
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