TurboTax 5-Day Early Refund - Anyone Actually Get It?

Tax professional here - the TurboTax 5-day early guarantee is essentially just marketing around the normal direct deposit timeline. When you e-file, the IRS typically processes refunds within 21 days. The '5 days early' just means TurboTax's bank partner fronts you the money slightly before the IRS releases it. However, you still need to pass all IRS verification checks first.

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I did it last year and it was a total joke tbh. Still had to wait the full time 🤡

Filed on the 29th with TT and got the 5 day thing. Still waiting... starting to think its all cap

Its basically just them fronting u the money early. U still gotta qualify and everything has to be perfect with ur return or they wont do it

Honestly the whole thing is such a scam. Their 'guarantee' has so many conditions in the fine print its basically useless for most people.