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10% Off TurboTax Discount Codes for October 2025
TurboTax has been my go-to for self-filing taxes for years. It’s good enough for me—and literally millions of other users. TurboTax has quickly become a favorite among users for its easy-to-use self-filing services, along with easy access to assistance from tax professionals. TurboTax has free self-service for qualifying people, and TurboTax Live Assisted, where you file online with tax expert help if needed, and TurboTax Full Service, where a tax expert will do your taxes and review them with you before filing.
To help you figure out the often confusing process of filing taxes, I’ve written a guide on How to Pay Your Taxes Online, and The Best Tax Services. In both, I included TurboTax and similar services to help navigate between the options available for your specific tax needs. WIRED also has TurboTax coupons to save money while you begin the always-annoying task of filing your taxes this year. Canadian customers click here, these coupons are not for you.
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Tax Season may have come and gone, but TurboTax still has discounts on online plan prices. And although the official tax deadline has passed and tax extensions were due October 15th, TurboTax is letting you e-file until October 31. If you need more than the TurboTax free edition, you can now save more on the tax services you need, with TurboTax coupon for up to 10% off federal tax products. Find current special offers and TurboTax 2025 discounts on Live Assisted, Live Full Service, and Live Business options. Plus, you’ll only pay when you file.
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You’ll want to file online soon to avoid IRS late fees and missing out on these discounts before they raise prices. Plus, you can use this TurboTax coupon, for 10% off their most popular online tax products like TurboTax Full Service, which usually starts at $129. This price includes W-2 and 1040, with state returns for an additional fee. With Live Full Service, a tax professional will do your taxes for you, which costs a bit more than DIY-ing it, but can save you headaches and messes when it comes to what you owe. Things only get more expensive as tax season approaches, so file now to get the best price of the season.
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*Price estimates are provided prior to a tax expert starting work on your taxes. Estimates are based on initial information you provide about your tax situation, including forms you upload to assist your expert in preparing your tax return and forms or schedules we think you’ll need to file based on what you tell us about your tax situation. Final price is determined at the time of print or electronic filing and may vary based on your actual tax situation, forms used to prepare your return, and forms or schedules included in your individual return. Prices are subject to change without notice and may impact your final price.
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As mentioned above, users can file for free with TurboTax free edition. Around 37% of taxpayers qualify. Simple Form 1040 returns only (no schedules except for Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Student Loan Interest). While this may not be the blanket service for every type of tax filer, this works for those with simple finances, so do a little research and see if TurboTax free edition may be right for you to save big instead of spending big. There are other ways to save too, with TurboTax discount codes for military members. As a thank you, military members can file their own taxes and get both their 2024 federal and state taxes done for free.
Other Free TurboTax Tools for Tax Season
In addition to the differing plans for individuals’ needs, TurboTax also has other helpful resources for this tax season, including a Tax Refund Calculator, where you can estimate your 2024 return by answering questions about your life and income. Similarly, TurboTax also offers a Tax Bracket Calculator to help you estimate your 2024 taxable income. All you need to do is enter your tax year filing status and taxable income to calculate your estimated tax rate.
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How Do I Get TurboTax Service Codes?
TurboTax service codes are unique codes, usually issued by customer support for specific situations; these will require you to input the code into the “I have a service code” field before payment. These single-use codes are for any technical or billing issues you may have during the tax filing process.
Don’t fret—there are still tons of ways to get TurboTax coupons, including a discount of 10% when you file before Tax Day (April 15). Plus, you can get 20% off TurboTax referral codes if you use a friend’s invite link between now and October 15. And if you send your link to a friend and they purchase an online TurboTax product, you’ll receive e-gift cards of up to $500 as a reward from TurboTax. Save on federal and business tax filings by following here for limited-time offers throughout the 2025 tax season.
You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents meant to keep enterprise customers locked inside its ecosystem. The company believes these offerings will give it an edge as businesses of all shapes and sizes deploy AI in the real world.
WIRED sat down with AWS CEO Matt Garman ahead of the company’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to discuss his AI vision, and how he plans to extend Amazon’s lead in the cloud market over its fast-rising competitors, Microsoft and Google.
Garman is betting that AI is a service that AWS can deliver more cheaply and reliably than its rivals. Through Bedrock, Amazon’s platform for building AI apps, he says customers can access a variety of AI foundation models while keeping the familiar data controls, security layers, and reliability that AWS is known for. If that pitch holds up, it could help AWS dominate in the AI era.
“Two years ago, people were building AI applications. Now, people are building applications that have AI in them,” said Garman, arguing that AI is becoming a feature inside large products rather than a standalone experiment. “That’s the platform that we’ve built, and that’s where I think you see AWS really start to take the lead.”
Many of the announcements at this year’s re:Invent fall along these lines. Amazon unveiled new, cost-efficient AI models in its Nova series; agents that can work autonomously on software development and cybersecurity tasks; as well as a fresh offering, Forge, that lets enterprises cheaply train AI models on their own data.
The stakes are high for AWS to get this right. While Amazon’s cloud unit dominated the smartphone era, smaller rivals like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure have grown at higher rates since the arrival of ChatGPT. Microsoft and Google have surged by tightly integrating with frontier AI models—the technology underlying ChatGPT and Gemini, respectively—attracting enterprises eager to experiment with cutting-edge capabilities.
This rise of AWS’s rivals has raised questions about Amazon’s broader AI strategy, and how the incumbent will fare in the years to come.
Garman says he’s been hearing these concerns for years, but less so in recent months. He argues that the tide is turning, pointing to AWS’s stronger-than-expected results in the company’s third quarter as evidence that his strategy is working.
Take it from me: Spending an hour with Melinda French Gates will restore at least an iota of your faith in humanity. The billionaire philanthropist, investor, and longtime advocate for women’s and girls’ rights is the rare example of an über-wealthy American who takes seriously the responsibility that their wealth confers.
In Gates’ case, she’s now channeling much of that responsibility—and billions of her own dollars—into Pivotal Ventures, a collective of organizations focused on advancing women’s interests in the US and around the world. Most recently, Pivotal announced $250 million in awards to women’s health organizations in 22 countries. Given the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on women’s interests, and diversity writ large, as well as the dystopian cuddle puddle taking place between tech industry leaders (Gates’ ex-husband, Bill, has been a part of that shift) and President Trump, it felt like a particularly salient moment to check in with Gates about, well, all of it.
From her own path through the masculine “debate club” of Big Tech to the billionaire boys who aren’t giving away the big bucks, I found myself pleasantly surprised, and even a little bit inspired, by Gates’ candor in discussing the very real challenges of this particular moment. So if you checked the news and felt even slightly infuriated this morning, keep reading. It helps to be reminded that not all billionaires are created equal—and that some of them are still pushing for more equality overall.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
KATIE DRUMMOND: Melinda French Gates, welcome to The Big Interview. Thank you so much for being here.
MELINDA FRENCH GATES: Thanks for having me, Katie.
So we always start these conversations with some rapid-fire questions. It’s a warmup. Get your brain working, get your muscles working. Are you ready?
I am ready.
OK, first thing you do when you wake up in the morning.
Get my coffee.
One tech product you wish you could invent for women’s health.
Self-controlled reproductive tool.
I want to hear more about that. What’s one myth about philanthropy you wish people would stop believing?
That it can solve everything.
One book everyone should read.
The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo.
What’s a habit you refuse to give up?
Having a Coke, a real Coke over ice. I just had one.
The Coke with sugar. The real …
The use of “trusted” digital ID software to verify your identity online in the UK has taken on a statutory footing as of 1 December.
The measures contained in the Data (Use and Access) Act, which became law in June this year, have now taken effect, introducing a formal and legally backed set of standards and governance rules with which all certified providers of digital verification services (DVS) must conform.
The move is intended to provide the public with confidence when using certified digital identity apps, through a framework that shows suppliers are considered trustworthy.
The statutory regime is also likely to underpin the UK government’s plans for a national digital ID scheme, which was announced by prime minister Keir Starmer in September, and is due to go through a consultation phase early next year.
The statutory system formalises processes that have been in place on a trial basis for some time. Suppliers of DVS tools have to conform to the government’s Digital Identities and Attributes Framework (DIATF) and associated codes that add further specifications for use cases such as right to work or right to rent checks.
Once certified, suppliers are listed on a statutory register and will be able to use a trust mark to prove their conformance for potential users. So far, 48 DVS providers who have gained DIATF certification have applied to join the register.
“This regime of standards, governance and oversight helps to ensure the public can trust digital verification services offered under it in the UK,” said John Peart, CEO of the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes (OfDIA), which oversees the framework.
Critical time for digital identity
The move comes at a critical time for digital identity in the UK. Suppliers were blindsided by Starmer’s announcement of a national digital ID scheme that will be mandatory for right-to-work checks by 2029. Many in the sector believe such a national scheme undermines all the work and investment they have put in to developing apps and achieving conformance to the statutory regime.
Today (2 December 2025), representatives of DIATF-certified DVS providers are meeting with Darren Jones, Starmer’s chief secretary, who has taken on policy responsibility in the Cabinet Office for the digital ID plan.
Last week’s Autumn Budget revealed that government has put aside £1.8bn to develop the national scheme, which many suppliers say is a needless expense when they already provide apps that can deliver right-to-work checks and other services within the scope of the government proposals.
“[Government] is proposing to add £1.8bn of new costs to build a system that duplicates DVS,” said Adrian Field, director of market development at digital ID supplier OneID, writing on LinkedIn.
“Is this the best use of taxpayer funds? [The] private sector has proven that ID services can be delivered far more effectively and at far cheaper cost – why not use the efficient, effective services more?”
The meeting with Jones came about after industry representatives requested a formal collaboration on the government scheme.
The Association of Digital Verification Professionals wrote an open letter to Jones, to request a meeting to propose a cross-sector forum to “support clarity and alignment” on the digital identity scheme, noting that government messaging on its policy has made no mention of the DIATF regime.
“For over a decade, with cross-party support, the UK has developed the Digital Identity and Attribute Trust Framework – a voluntary model that protects individual rights, lets government regulate and allows industry to innovate,” the letter said.
“It is unclear whether the aim is a new national digital ID stored in certified private wallets, a single credential sitting solely in the Gov.uk Wallet accessed by certified DVS providers (the current plan), or something entirely different. Each variation represents a fundamentally different social and economic model. This uncertainty risks market stability, discourages investment and weakens trust across the entire digital ecosystem – not just government.”
An online petition opposing the introduction of digital ID in the UK has gathered almost three million signatures, and many DVS providers are privately outraged at the government’s proposals.
MPs on the Home Affairs Committee launched an inquiry in June 2025 into the introduction of new forms of digital ID. At a hearing last month, the MPs were warned that a mandatory digital ID could pave the way for greater mass surveillance and digital exclusion, and would fail to deliver Starmer’s suggested benefits of reducing illegal migration or preventing people from working illegally.
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