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'taxes' is a 4... erm, 5 letter word for some; almost taboo.
Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?
The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans
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#12I’ll wait for other people to test it.
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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?
What makes you think that a division of the federal government is going to get it right the first time? I'm being serious (not snarky). Have you ever worked with the federal government? I have (as a contractor) and I was constantly amazed (not in a good way).
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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?
Because the agency which decides whether I did my taxes correctly is likely going to have terrible UX and has an incentive to hide options for me to save on taxes? I pay private agents all the time to avoid having to deal with terrible governments interfaces and find shortcuts, wins for me.
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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?
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#16I’ll wait for other people to test it.
Just curious, are you worried about anything in particular?
which is to say, that worry shouldn't stop anyone from trying their site.
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What makes you think that a division of the federal government is going to get it right the first time? I'm being serious (not snarky). Have you ever worked with the federal government? I have (as a contractor) and I was constantly amazed (not in a good way).
It's literally not their first time. It launched for tax year 2023.
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It's literally not their first time. It launched for tax year 2023.
I still wouldn't use it this early.
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I still wouldn't use it this early.
I completely agree. I pay like 80 or 90 bucks a year to file with TurboTax and can afford to pay that for a few years while the kinks are worked out on the IRS system.