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Relative a of FreeTaxUSA employee here. I'll let her know. She cares about UX.
Are there any details about their tech stack you can share? I know they're using Java (there were pages ending in .jsp when I filed my taxes through them) but that's about it.
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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…
FreeFillableForms (.com) is 100% free, has no income limits, has every IRS schedule & form. It's basically backed by the IRS and implemented by Intuit et al, but appears independent. It works a little better every year, but you do still have to manually carry over some numbers from form to form. I've been using it for the last 8 years at least. I don't love it to death, but if it wasn't available I'd do my own paper…
Glad a digital equivalent to paper forms exists, the US tax code is far less hellish than I previously believed.
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Oh I read it. I just didn’t, ok. I wonder if I buy the company line anywhere?
im not sure what argument you're making. are you claiming the IRS' statement is just fabricating that this program has anything to do with the congressional bill it's actually proposed and funded within ?
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At the very least, I'm going to contend that it's not a DIY thing. It's something that you should hire a tax pro for, so they can properly assess your situation and present your case. > In a number of recent Tax Court cases, taxpayers have raised the argument that they relied on Turbo Tax software as a defense to the imposition of the accuracy-related penalty. With one notable exception, the so-called “Turbo Tax defe…
Many years ago, I screwed up my AMT calculations pretty badly, arguably because the instructions for Form 6251 suck. I was off by several thousand dollars, the difference between a big refund and a big amount due. I didn't have to hire anyone to get the penalties waived; I just submitted a letter explaining my original rationale, along with an amended return fixing the problem and a check for the correct tax. The IRS…
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A tangential comment given your mention of whatever 99 B form: Every time HN discussion about US taxes comes, I imagine a sizeable group of users from developed country watch in amusement the craziness that the IRS makes its taxpayers go through to charge them money. I know in Mexico and Chile everything is highly automated. In Mexico 50%+ of working class dont have to do ANYTHING, as whatever tax stuff needed is sub…
1099-anything, by definition, doesn't come from an employer. They're for other sources of income (brokerage sales, interest, etc.). The US would need to vastly simply the tax code - remove all the various tax breaks for dependents/spouses, remove the progressive taxation scale, etc. - before it could be successfully automated.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
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> it saves me from human mistakes Not me! FreeFillableForms is apparently the last piece of software in the western world that doesn’t save your progress as you go. I found that out the hard way about three days ago and immediately switched to freetaxusa.
I use freetaxusa as well (well their paid version from same company). It is slower than paper, but it saves progress.
Almost none of the “free” or affordable options work the minute you put in an international address. Uncle Sam is one of the rare cases of taxing its citizens abroad, but everything about getting taxed abroad is more complicated.