moxnix said:I have been using. https://www.freetaxusa.com/ for the last few years. Federal is free and state is $15.
This is what I do also.
moxnix said:I have been using. https://www.freetaxusa.com/ for the last few years. Federal is free and state is $15.
This is what I do also.
Glad to see others have a good experience with freetaxusa as I was seeing them recommended elsewhere. I plan to use them this year since taxact keeps raising fees and making it more difficult to file. I swear their whole "make things simple" ends up a complicated mess. I just want to key in the forms I have and be done. I used to think the data transfer from year to year was saving me time but it's not.
I was using TaxAct for a while. It started at something like $25, but slowly went right up to TurboTax levels. A bait and switch I suspect.
I used to do mine as soon as I got everything, then later I'd get emails for save 25% or take $25 off. So I waited a little longer this year and got one od the "deals" I think for Federal and State I paid $75 this year. Turbotax.
aircooled said:I was using TaxAct for a while. It started at something like $25, but slowly went right up to TurboTax levels. A bait and switch I suspect.
That's why I was so shocked when I got to the "File" portion and it was $170.
$84k is the IRS free-file program limit, but FreeTaxUSA.com is not restricted to that program and has no income limit.
The lobbying efforts from the likes of Intuit (Turbo Tax) and H&R Block are one of the (if not THE) main reasons filing taxes in our country remains so complicated that people feel the need to pay for help doing it. Using their products is not only a waste of money, but also funds and rewards their efforts to retain this widely despised and entirely unnecessary status quo that the masses have been conditioned to accept.
I too used freetaxusa to help someone else with taxes before and it worked great. But for myself, we've been using turbotax just out of habit for several years and it almost never costs me a penny, even with a family income above $100k. I don't understand their pricing structure, but I haven't questioned it.
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