I run a site about Health Savings Accounts[0]. Each year that you have contributions or distributions in your HSA, you have to file tax form 8889 to report these to the IRS. The form is overly complicated with pages of instructions so I wrote a blog post on how to complete it. A reader wrote me requesting help and, importantly, offered to pay me to fill it out for her. I thought it over and considered opening a tax service to fill these out for people. I didn't want to spend my days filing people's taxes one by one so declined, and instead programmed it and launched EasyForm8889[1]. It is an online service that asks simple questions and completes the tax form for you.
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A little warning stackingthebricks is a semi-advice site designed to get you to need the rest of the advice, buy buying the course. Which isn't cheap.
I learned enough just reading the free stuff to make a product with revenue. But yes.
You're like the physicists that stayed in the casino, then. :-)