TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines

Post by homero » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

kup0 wrote: post #220

homero wrote: post #219

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It's a deduction so don't report at all

As far as I know, reporting paid student loan interest is a "required" form according to the IRS. I remember looking up information about it at the time to see if I could just not report it, and that did not seem to be recommended

Post by romwell » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 10:20 PM UTC

spaginal wrote: post #184

cr0sh wrote: post #87

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I don't know why, but all of this "privatization" bugs the hell out of me. Maybe it has something to with wanting to see my taxes being used properly, rather than going to a private company's profits. Maybe it's the abstraction; that'd I like to know that the workers I see doing the work for the government are government employees, and that I am, in some small way, helping them? I mean, sure, with a private company t…

It’s done because private industry in most circumstances, does it better than government can, and at the end of the day it can be significantly cheaper and less of a boondoggle than if government did it all themselves as government likes to do. Think of the professional experience, supply chain, and logistics for each industry where you could theoretically involve government to control or produce on it’s own. The err…

Post by marcinzm » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 10:32 PM UTC

ac29 wrote: post #209

mlindner wrote: post #190

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Unfortunately it's useless to almost all software developers/engineers in the state because they don't include capital gains.

There's a pretty huge list of disqualifying things actually, though capital gains (even $1) is probably the biggest restriction. I wonder why they can't handle this - its not that obscure. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/calfile/qualifications2018.sht...

Post by guessmyname » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 10:52 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #221

alanh wrote: post #214

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did you really just paste a viral tweet here without attribution? :/

Help me out with the attribution please, I couldn't find it. (clarification: It came by as an image maybe a month ago on probably my facebook feed, searched but couldn't find the specifics, so wrote up my recollection because it brought up a good point related to HR Block and Intuit lobbying against free options)

Post by ben174 » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 11:00 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #37

Govt: "We need some money from you to buy things." Me: "How much?" Govt: "You figure it out." Me: "Oh, I get to pay whatever I want?" Govt: "LOL, no, we have a figure that we want you to pay." Me: "What happens if I guess that number wrong?" Govt: "You get to go to prison."