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https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/ They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee.
Relative of an employee of freetaxusa.com (TaxHawk). My relative is one of the people working on Free File. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to contact me [1]. Free File is something they are deadly serious about because they know Intuit, TurboTax, et al are scummy, and well, it brings in business. But Free File can be complicated (my relative complains about it a lot), so there may be issues. Please let me kno…
Question: How does FreeTaxUSA make money to support this?
Relative of an employee of freetaxusa.com (TaxHawk). My relative is one of the people working on Free File. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to contact me [1]. Free File is something they are deadly serious about because they know Intuit, TurboTax, et al are scummy, and well, it brings in business. But Free File can be complicated (my relative complains about it a lot), so there may be issues. Please let me kno…
Used it last year and liked it, planning to use it this year. Question: How does FreeTaxUSA make money to support this?
There are two answers: state filing (which sometimes costs) and add-ons such as their "Deluxe" offering.
They make money by being much smaller than TurboTax and the others. Less people means less money spent. They do this by optimizing for the easy 80% use case and letting TurboTax et al take the hard 20%.
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At what point is it recommended to not use a software like freetaxusa? I've been using it for years.
Being a US citizen abroad. I’m in this situation and have had to pay huge sums to accountants If anyone has any recommendations I’m all ears
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Being a US citizen abroad. I’m in this situation and have had to pay huge sums to accountants If anyone has any recommendations I’m all ears
I used this in the past for a relatively complex US/foreign situation: https://www.myexpattaxes.com/ No affiliation or anything.
Remember H&R Block, TurboTax, etc have all been caught tricking people into paying for free services, so watch out when using them if you are expecting free filing. Of course, this doesn't change the US Tax code being intentionally designed to be easy to make errors that can lead to significant fines.
I've been using TT for decades. Their "tricks" are basically asking you 2 or three times during the process if you want to pay for a new feature. Pretty lame for tricks. But annoying still. Also: just be rich. They don't investigate non-billionaires. Jeez.
Eventually they ended their participation in the IRS’s free filing program after all 50 states sued them for $141M for scamming the lowest income tax payers into paying unnecessarily.
https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/ They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee.
> They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee. Some states don't offer a free-file option. My memory, which is at least a few years out of date, is that MI doesn't.
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This is how it works in most countries across the pond...
Only works in the UK this way if you earn less than £100k. Canada forces most people to file a return too. Though it’s simpler than a US return.
https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/ They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee.
FreeTaxUSA can be confusing though. It makes it quite unclear what is contributing to what portion of your tax bill. I like it better than the other more popular, mainstream options, but its usability isn't great. I never have full confidence I'm paying the correct amount or getting the correct amount as a refund.