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Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
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Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#52curious
I prepare and file all my personal and business taxes and forms without any software, other than excel.
Filing by hand means the IRS copies only the most important information, then archives/destroys the original. The end result is less chance of an audit, as there is less information up front. At least that's the rumor.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#53When the average person is excessively burdened in the duty of filing his or her own taxes, and consequently must rely on a computer program or third party to do them, then the tax laws are defacto non-democratic. Therein, any congressman that does not avail themselves to fix such a system of taxation promptly is in utter violation of the nations charter and wholly impeachable.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#54When the average person is excessively burdened in the duty of filing his or her own taxes, and consequently must rely on a computer program or third party to do them, then the tax laws are defacto non-democratic. Therein, any congressman that does not avail themselves to fix such a system of taxation promptly is in utter violation of the nations charter and wholly impeachable.
Tax law complexity and democracy are two entirely unrelated concepts. Including the US, there are several democracies with complex tax laws. And several undemocratic with simple tax laws.
I'd venture a guess that complexity of taxes is more related to health of the economy than the particular system of government.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#55Here we have a little program called e-tax [1] that we can download. It'll download a whole heap of pre-fill info for you [2] such as wages earned and tax paid throughout the year, your medicare (our dirty socialist public healthcare) info and any private health insurance you may or may not have (since that affects your tax contributions), any share dividends/transactions, bank savings interest accrued, etc etc. You…
"Here in Australia" (you forgot to mention). etax is a very user friendly program and works great on mac and pc. So awesome you can submit everything and even put in your back details to get your return within a few days deposited into your account.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#56I was going to select H&R Block Online but that's not an option, guess I could select other but when I think probably a lot of people use it, it should be a poll option. Why do we use it? Simple, TurboTax Online _still_ in _2014_ says my system is not supported. I run Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. H&R Block Online is just fine with my system, doesn't complain and works great, we've used it for six years, on Ubuntu.
Is H&R Block Online different from H&R Block At Home? If so, I apologize for omitting it.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#57When the average person is excessively burdened in the duty of filing his or her own taxes, and consequently must rely on a computer program or third party to do them, then the tax laws are defacto non-democratic. Therein, any congressman that does not avail themselves to fix such a system of taxation promptly is in utter violation of the nations charter and wholly impeachable.
Tax law complexity and democracy are two entirely unrelated concepts. Including the US, there are several democracies with complex tax laws. And several undemocratic with simple tax laws. I'd venture a guess that complexity of taxes is more related to health of the economy than the particular system of government.
Not sure why the down vote, I agree with this response, as well as others. I recently read that tax laws can be treated as the government's way of encouraging behavior.
Now we study the tax laws to find out which parts we can qualify for and are advantageous to us. For example, knowing certain laws ahead of time can suggest which entity to form for a given business venture.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#58Thank you to everyone who responded to this poll! I used TaxACT for the past two years -- I'd avoided TurboTax because intuit is evil (see other comments here). But based on the responses here, I decided to try out TurboTax, and it is /way/ better than TaxAct, in just about every way. I guess evil and competent is something...
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#59You ever consider how much power Turbotax and H&R block have? The government could behind the doors make a deal with them that could potentially make billions of dollars of revenue by simply omitting a question for example.
I think that's a highly unlikely scenario.
It would be very hard to keep a deal like that secret, since many of the companies' employees would potentially know about it (the executives who made the decision, plus anyone whose job it was to make sure the code was working correctly: accountants, programmers, testers). Also, any outside accountant who looked at the software would be able to figure it out.
And think of the risk to these companies' and the IRS' reputations if they did something like that and it was exposed by the media. The people involved in the decision would almost certainly lose their jobs, and the whistleblowers who leaked it to the media would become heroes.
Re: Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
#60I was going to select H&R Block Online but that's not an option, guess I could select other but when I think probably a lot of people use it, it should be a poll option. Why do we use it? Simple, TurboTax Online _still_ in _2014_ says my system is not supported. I run Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. H&R Block Online is just fine with my system, doesn't complain and works great, we've used it for six years, on Ubuntu.
Is H&R Block Online different from H&R Block At Home? If so, I apologize for omitting it.
H&R Block Online is a web-based application. H&R Block At Home is a program that you install on your PC or Mac.