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I'm not sure the trustworthiness of the company/site. I didn't see any red flags in the privacy policy but would love to hear from others if they've used this.
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I just download the forms from the IRS and fill them out. File on paper. It's not very hard and that way nobody but the IRS has my data.
Some situations are not hard, and some are. I wouldn't make a generalization like that.
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The ridiculous tax code isnt the fault of TT, even though they lobby to keep it that way. It's the fault of the cowards we keep sending to DC. Take it up with them.
A complicated tax code isn't the problem. The tax code can be as complicated as can be, so long as it is computed automatically by the state from the data it already receives, which is the part that Intuit is blocking.
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Do you have evidence or justification for this claim?
From their privacy policy https://www.creditkarma.com/tax/privacy : When We Share the Information We Collect Affiliates: We may share certain information with our affiliated companies, such as Credit Karma, to help us provide our Services and manage your account. now, it seems fine for Credit Karma Tax to share information with Credit Karma. what exactly counts as an "affiliate" though? I mean, "affiliate marketing"…
eh. mediocre only because he sets the stage early as TT being able to do this devilish stuff because they’ve studied user behavior for a decade or decades and know you. making TT out to be some devil that knows you personally. honestly it’s standard predatory sales technique that many many companies use, including amazon. (like pretending that prime day prices are actually a bargain)
I tried https://www.freetaxusa.com this year since I dislike Intuit so much for their lobbying. The site works very well and has a pretty similar flow to TurboTax except no auto import of financial account info. I'm not sure the trustworthiness of the company/site. I didn't see any red flags in the privacy policy but would love to hear from others if they've used this.
Seemed very straightforward, perhaps not as good on the suggestion front as far as potentially reducing your tax burden though.
They also managed to import my prior tax PDF from TaxAct flawlessly, so that's a plus.
This might not apply to many who frequent HN, but not enough people know about Free File options. If your adjusted gross income is less than $66,000 you can likely file your federal and potentially state taxes for free. If you make more than $66,00 AGI, the IRS provides fillable forms that are pretty easy to use for your federal but might not be applicable in all circumstances. https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do…
I was just about to comment about this! I moved outside of the states, and have a non-US bank account, which is something that TurboTax doesn't handle in their free version. I ended up using H&R Block through this Free File, and it covered both federal (1040) and CA returns for free, which TurboTax wanted to charge $30 for CA return and like $40 or $50 for the federal since I have a non-US bank account. If you make l…
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The ridiculous tax code isnt the fault of TT, even though they lobby to keep it that way. It's the fault of the cowards we keep sending to DC. Take it up with them.
And yet whenever we try to eliminate “loopholes”, there’s some group complaining vigorously to keep that complexity. The new tax law simplified taxes for most filers by increasing the standard deduction (by eliminating exemptions).
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You can deduct state taxes which adds up. Really 24,000$ is easier to hit than you might think.
You can only deduct 10k of state taxes starting next year