Lest we get too concerned for the future of Intuit, it may be helpful to review my situation this year:
Turbotax Fed and State $45
Note - this gets you up to 5 federal efiles, but not the state efile. Since we have income in two states and were doing parents taxes from a 3rd state
Additional States @ $40 each $80 Three State efiles: $75
Total: $200
Note that the additional state and efile charges go 100% to Intuit - unlike the basic package that gets shared with the vendor.
In past years, I've filed the states manually. One state has you enter numbers from the federal return on a web page, the other allowed paper filing. This year, the state that had allowed paper filing said electronic only, so i thought I'd let Intuit do it all. Going to have to revisit that next year.