These guys are the punchline of the joke that is the 'Intuit lobbies the federal government to make taxes hard' narrative. Free for most people, super cheap for everyone else, and the process is a breeze. It is a direct improvement on all axes compared to mainstream tax software for like 95% of the population.
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#32I've used turbotax for the last decade. They lure you in with free services for enlisted military or other discounts, then make it feel as annoying as possible to switch. Realizing how much I've been ripped off now I think this is the year I'm finally going to switch.
Not just that you're ripped off, but they heavily lobby to keep taxes as frustrating as possible so their existence isn't irrelevant. I hate hearing about late stage capitalism, but this is essentially that.
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#33Cash app let's you file both federal and state taxes for free. It was formally Credit Karma's free tax filing program that was divested after they were acquired by Intuit.
Does Cash App sell your data?
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#34A great company. I've used them for years for my self employment taxes. My kids all use them.
FreeTax is the Kagi of tax prep.
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#35Weird, it wasn't working in Safari a few days ago - or chrome. Had to login via Firefox.
Now it's working in Safari again.
Seems performant and usable, can't really say TurboTax did much more except be flashy. And now that they closed the sharing loophole, I guess it's time to try a switch.
I might even file state with these guys, usually I would print and mail.
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#36Used FreeTaxUSA for the first time last year and the 1099-B related stuff was even easier than TurboTax. I saved about $120 as well. So glad to be done with TurboTax
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#38Been using them for 3 years now with moderately complex taxes (1099 of many kinds, rental property, pass-through LLC) and I’ve been pretty happy.
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#39I've been using them for a while now. Federal return is free and state return is like 20 bucks or something.
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#40This provides exactly the same service as every $150+ overpriced tax filing product you've ever paid (ie been scammed) for. Highly recommend. Hopefully the new IRS software will make even this obsolete.
Can you put in your logins for all your brokerages and investment accounts and it pulls in the tax data automatically? This is hugely important for me since I make a bunch of trades (not enough to be a day trader, but enough to be annoying for tax purposes).