I do stock investing. Last year I had no trading activity, only dividends from it and did some online research concerning whether I had to buy Turbotax Premier to support that activity. The last bunch of years I did buy that and it's around $30 more than Deluxe. I saw some posts saying that Intuit had deceptive marketing practices and that Deluxe would certainly suffice, so I use that for year 2024. I suppose I could have used free tax prep software but next April I figure I will need Premier because I just made some stock trades. One reason I continue with TT is that it imports last year's return and riffs off it. I figure if I use a different program maybe it can't (or won't) import relevant info, such as which institutions I deal with, what my deductions were, etc. I'm sure a lot of people think similarly. Unfortunately, I haven't seen or heard a lot of info concerning these issues anywhere.