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Level 2
posted Mar 20, 2025 10:01:13 AM

Access denied error message when searching for support or community messages

When I search for an issue in the Support or Community sections of the Canadian section of turbo tax, as expected, Turbotax returns a list of possible articles, posts and FAQ of potential interest.  Unfortunately when I click on any of them, I get the following error message "Access denied.  You do not have sufficient privileges for this resource or its parent to perform this action." 

 

The following may be relevant:

1) I am logged in,

2) I have tried two different browsers (Edge & Firefox) and got the same results,

3) Rebooting had no impact,

4) I am on the Canadian site (URL = https://turbotax.community.intuit.ca/turbotax-support/en-ca/help-search) ,

5) If I just browse through the community postings, I can click on them and view them without a problem; the issue occurs only when clicking on a search result.

 

Any suggestions?

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Moderator
Mar 21, 2025 11:28:31 AM

You are getting this message because you're trying to access a delete post. These deleted posts shouldn't be showing in our search results and we are looking into resolving the issue ASAP.

 

Level 2
Mar 21, 2025 1:26:27 PM

Thank you for the response.  I did some extra testing in case useful:

  •  Search results corresponding to "Articles" all opened fine
  •  I tried 5 search topics (T2200, Bug, access denied, T63.4, RRSP).  In each case I tried to open 5-10 links (for a total of about 40 attempts), most of them with the mention "Updated a year ago" but some as old as "updated 4 years ago".
  •  Of the 40 or so links I tried to follow, only ONE opened a community post, one led to a page saying "Enterprise SSO" and a box saying "Corporate User ID", and ALL the other community search results led to "Access denied".
  • The one link that opened was to a post entitled "Quebec - Work from home expenses" last updated Marh 11, 2024.
  •  Looking at the first 2-3 pages of search results, none of the search results had updates shorter than 1 year, which strikes me as odd; there are presumably searchable results that are days or weeks old.
  •  I tried searching for community posts younger than 1 year, I did not find any, maybe all posts younger than a year are marked "updated a year ago" ???
  •  I tried looking for this specific post, it is not being returned in search results for "Access denied".  
  • Knowing that a search for "Access denied" between quotes returns only two results might help you reproduce the issue.  The two results are :
  1. Auto-Fill: Keep Getting "Access Denied (No permission to access server)" Message (updated 1 year ago), and
  2. TtUpdate_Date_2017.exe Where can I find this link for my 2016 taxes (updated 4 years ago)

Hope this helps.

Moderator
Mar 22, 2025 10:11:18 AM

Thanks for letting us know!

 

 

Level 2
Apr 11, 2025 1:07:28 PM

It has been a few weeks and the problem continues to exist.  Any hope that it will be resolved?  It is extremely annoying to search the database, find an entry that seems to answer the question we have and not to be able to read it because "access is denied".

Returning Member
Apr 13, 2025 2:21:37 PM

Same problem. When will we have a solution for this? Even trying to access a post found via a google search gives the same error. Even if I am already logged in.

Moderator
Apr 14, 2025 11:02:10 AM

Thank you for your feedback. As soon as the issue will be resolved, we'll update on this thread.


Thank you for your patience and choosing TurboTax

New Member
Apr 26, 2025 12:42:12 PM

I have the same problem, this is garbage.

Level 1
Apr 27, 2025 12:38:49 PM

Getting this error as well. Very frustrating. 

Level 1
May 6, 2025 4:39:01 PM

I am having trouble with netfile.   I found an article with my issue, but I am unable to view the reply.  I am so mad right now. How stupid is this??  You have a problem which you shouldn't have to begin  with, and when you try to figure it out yourself you DON'T HAVE ACCESS to view the answer????????   It's ridiculous.  I just HATE INTUIT.  I have spent HOURS trying to figure out this issue and this is the result. Of course, they don't give a sh**.  They already have my money.

Level 1
May 6, 2025 4:40:38 PM

WELL???   Is there an update?  Its been 3 weeks !!!!

Moderator
May 7, 2025 7:02:13 AM

You are getting this message because you're trying to access a delete post. These deleted posts shouldn't be showing in our search results. We are still working on resolving the issue, and we'll update this thread when we have more info.

 

In the meantime, please don't click on search results for posts that say "Updated 4 years ago", as most of those have been deleted. You can also click on “Articles” at the top of the search results to see just FAQs that match your query.

 

If you have tax questions you can also find answers on the TurboTax Canada Blog: https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tips/

 

We also have how-tos and tax-tips on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TurboTaxCanada/featured

 

You can also ask your own question:

 

Returning Member
Sep 25, 2025 8:49:56 PM

It's September now and this same problem is still happening. A lot of the posts even have a banner saying they have been updated within the year, but my access to all of them is denied. What's extra frustrating, is that I can see that they are answering my question but I had to click through several pages of replies before I could find one that let me in. 

Moderator
Sep 29, 2025 7:26:48 AM

Can you send us screenshots/pictures of where you are at (the page) when you see these posts so that we can verify this on our end.

 

Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

Level 2
Oct 7, 2025 7:23:43 AM

In response to TurboTaxBrenda's request, I reran some of the tests I originally reported at the start of this thread.  I found fewer cases of "access denied" then back in January, but still plenty so it took only seconds to finds access denied cases.

 

Below are 3 examples.  two relate to the search for "T2200" and one to the search for "bug".  For each example, there are two screen shots.  One of the search results and the other of the access denied screen once I click on the search results.  

 

Example 1: T2200, clicked on 3rd response from search, entitled Beachbody coach:

 

 

Example 2: T2200, image of second page of search results, topic = "Entering employment expenses with T2200 does not work"

 

 

Example 3: search for word "Bug", clicked on first entry in the results, title = T1ADJ Bug:

 

 

I hope this helps.  It would be nice if this could be fixed before the upcoming tax season ...

 

Moderator
Oct 8, 2025 6:52:29 AM

Thank you so much for this. We will be sending this off to the appropriate team to verify this issue.

 

We will update you here as soon as we have a resolution.