Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#11

Post by pstuart » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 2:57 AM UTC

spicyusername wrote: post #10

Unrelated, but I used Free Tax USA this year, and it was great. Glad to be rid of Intuit.

Just discovered it today -- simple and cheap, as painless as one could hope for (save for the taxes themselves). Never again will I give Intuit a dime.

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#12

Post by hrunt » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 2:59 AM UTC

spicyusername wrote: post #10

Unrelated, but I used Free Tax USA this year, and it was great. Glad to be rid of Intuit.

Related to your unrelated, I also used Free Tax USA this year. I ended up having to use TurboTax to complete my taxes because FTUSA didn't handle calculations for a Schedule K-1 correctly and did not support all information provided by said K-1 (as confirmed by their support staff).

I thought it was a great product, but alas, I need it to handle those things properly if I want to dump TurboTax. I would actually be happy to pay for FTUSA if the features worked.

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#13

Post by etrautmann » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 5:20 AM UTC

envoked wrote: post #8

I worked on Turbotax as a co-op back in 2009/10 so things have definitely changed but two things stood out to me. First, there were two “peaks” one around January 19th (when the first wave of W2s goes out) and one around April 15th. Second, was around the migration from desktop to online. At the time, TurboTax was one of the earliest tax prep products that had a cloud offering. It had done so in a somewhat interestin…

And nimble in lobbying to continue fleecing the American public

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#14

Post by 5555624 » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 8:51 AM UTC

markiannucci wrote: post #6

https://excel1040.com is humming along quite nicely.

Although he calls it "Excel1040.com," the URL I use is:

     https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

I use it every year.

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#15

Post by JohnBooty » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 12:42 PM UTC

envoked wrote: post #8

I worked on Turbotax as a co-op back in 2009/10 so things have definitely changed but two things stood out to me. First, there were two “peaks” one around January 19th (when the first wave of W2s goes out) and one around April 15th. Second, was around the migration from desktop to online. At the time, TurboTax was one of the earliest tax prep products that had a cloud offering. It had done so in a somewhat interestin…

Oh.

My.

God.

Re: Ask HN: What's It Like at Intuit/TurboTax on Tax Day?

#16

Post by cosmotic » Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 6:43 PM UTC

hrunt wrote: post #12

spicyusername wrote: post #10

Unrelated, but I used Free Tax USA this year, and it was great. Glad to be rid of Intuit.

Related to your unrelated, I also used Free Tax USA this year. I ended up having to use TurboTax to complete my taxes because FTUSA didn't handle calculations for a Schedule K-1 correctly and did not support all information provided by said K-1 (as confirmed by their support staff). I thought it was a great product, but alas, I need it to handle those things properly if I want to dump TurboTax. I would actually be ha…

FTUSA guarantees all the calculations are accurate and a maximum refund. Seems like they'd be on the hook for any K-1 issues.