Help with my taxes...?

Your W4 is not set well for state. You need to decrease the allowances so they withhold more.

One of them is obviously wrong. Here is what you do if you get fed refund and owe state. You file fed first, get refund, then file state and pay with fed refund. See? You have $1200 of the $1324 in effect.

The reason you're having to pay the state every year has nothing to do with which software program you use, its because your withholding rate is not set correctly. You should turn in a new W4 (or the NY state equivalent) to increase the amount of state tax withheld from future paychecks so you don't owe again next year.

For this year you need to find what you did wrong in the tax software and correct it. Something is different in the data you entered, if it was the exact same data the software would have produced the exact same result even with their different formats.

Personally, I'd stick with Turbo Tax because that's what you've been using and its what you know. Find and fix your mistake, then file and pay as much as you can. If possible, save like crazy until April and see if you can just pay in full before the deadline. If not, then set up a payment plan with the state.

let's put it this way, the amount you owe is due and payable by the deadline date, in most states it is the same as the federal, April 15, you can pay any amount you can when you file and if there is a 1040 V(or state form) provided you can cross out the amount and enter what you are paying, both agencies will bill you for the rest and you can make subsequent payments if all of this is done prior to 4/15

in the case you are unable to pay in full to the feds, you have available what is called a 'soft' installment agreement that you are given an additional 120 days to pay in full without penalities

the state may or may not have the same provision for you but you can ask

You do not always get what the software says. It can be wrong. Even though Tax Slayer said you would get $60 with the state, if you use Tax Slayer, you might have to pay what Turbo Tax said, or even more.

You're misunderstanding something they're asking, or both would give the same resuts. Without seeing the returns, can't say what.

If you're getting different results on the software, then the problem is you - not the software. You're doing something wrong.