Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

Post by metaphor » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

enahs-sf wrote: post #97

jjulius wrote: post #78

To clarify: This is not a full launch, it's just a "limited pilot" that will only be available in 13 states in 2024. Arizona California Florida Massachussetts Nevada New Hampshire New York South Dakota Tennessee Texas Washington Wyoming Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

AZ, CA, FL, TX, NY alone gets you to about 120m people. This is a pretty big first test.

  AZ    4,197,918
  CA   23,209,479
  FL   14,563,047
  TX   16,750,330
  NY   13,115,425
  ---------------
       71,836,199
  ===============
  US  204,434,236

Post by smt88 » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

greyface- wrote: post #192

amalcon wrote: post #177

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> Interest of $1,500 or less The only 1099 that most people will get, even with meaningful savings, meets this description.

"Gig work" typically results in 1099 rather than W-2 income, and is common.

Post by guerrilla » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

sircastor wrote: post #165

atum47 wrote: post #57

Declaring taxes in Brazil is free, but it's hard work (if you dabble with stocks, for instance). For 1/5 of the value of the minimum wage you can hire a accountant that does it for you. I think the service is worth it's price. All i have to do is send them a bunch of documents and they make sense out of it.

This is the way it should be here in the US, and this is the way it works in a lot of countries. The tragedy is, we all know it, and we all want it to change, but there are a few people who don't want it to change, and they're empowered to make it that way. I hope this IRS effort works out.

Post by greyface- » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #213

greyface- wrote: post #192

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"Gig work" typically results in 1099 rather than W-2 income, and is common.

Gig work is not common[1]. It just gets disproportionate attention. 1. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/12/08/the-state-of...

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:15 PM UTC

tombert wrote: post #135

radlad wrote: post #109

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FWIW, FreeTaxUSA[0] is much cheaper than Intuit and has worked great for me the past few years. I find it slightly easier than TurboTax, in fact. [0] https://www.freetaxusa.com/

Jackson Hewitt Online isn't terribly pricey (Cost me a total of about $25 last year), so that's what I've used for the last two years. Keep in mind that Jackson Hewitt Online is a different thing that the vanilla Jackson Hewitt Still, I kind of feel annoyed that I have to pay any amount of money to do something legally required of me to avoid going to jail. I think the IRS should provide a free option for filing, and…