1: Free Tax USA State
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2: Cash App Taxes (Formally Credit Karma Tax)
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3: OnlineTaxes
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4: IRS Free File: Do your Taxes for Free (for AGI $73,000 or less)
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- People who generally make $60,000 or less
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- Limited English-speaking taxpayers
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I need:
Schedule C with full expense reporting
Investments with 1099-B importing
Anyone know the minimum package needed that includes these features? HR Block or any of the others?
Schdl C is listed, no details given.
Here's what tomsguide says about the various tiers:
Self-employed with no expense deductions can use the Deluxe tier. At the Premium online level, you gain support for rental income and deductions, Health Savings Accounts tracking, and investment and cryptocurrency transactions. The Self-Employed online version offers more complete support for independents and freelancers, full Schedule C business expense deductions and support for filing for home-office deductions, depreciation and vehicle expenses.
From this it's still not clear but seems you can't report schedule C expenses with the deluxe version.
I have been using Deluxe for twenty plus years to do everything you have listed and more and it still does it as it always has. The only thing that changes year by year is how they more slickly market and try to persuade upgrades. Screencaps again.
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I need:
Schedule C with full expense reporting
Investments with 1099-B importing
Anyone know the minimum package needed that includes these features? HR Block or any of the others?
I have been using Deluxe for twenty plus years to do everything you have listed and more and it still does it as it always has. The only thing that changes year by year is how they more slickly market and try to persuade upgrades. Screencaps again.
Thanks to your reply I will be able to use the Deluxe desktop version. That information is hard to come by.
Thanks to your reply I will be able to use the Deluxe desktop version. That information is hard to come by.
This is the digital version. You download and install on your computer it is not the online. Digital is the same as you will install if you buy the retail box.
They keep things vague for a reason. Do keep in mind reading forward that this all pertains just to passthrough income such as self-employment, 1099 and LLC. Corporarte income does need a different version.
I only got involved in these conversations when suddenly on a Slickdeal's thread I had people saying that Deluxe would not do passthrough business income or Schedules C. I had been using Deluxe doing just that for many years and I did panic thinking the box version I just ordered might have some change from the prior year and they had taken something away. I tried just what you did trying to do some online research and found it all just vague and many supposed review sites gave a copy and paste of Block's marketing materials.
This was all shortly after Taxcut had pulled Schedule C support out of their Deluxe version without notifying their customer base that had used it prior years. Let's just say that when maybe millions of users finding out maybe short weeks or days before Tax Day, that they could not submit their tax returns as they always had, caused an online and even newspaper PR disaster. The company reconsidered and added it back in. I knew that had all happened and did not think Block would dare try the same and after taking the chance and installing found it did my taxes just as it always did.
The only thing that had changed was how they marketed it and guided strongly and almost deceptively to get a higher version. Been having these conversations for close to ten years now I think but the marketing often overrides my message. My understanding of it is all is that in there is really no difference as to forms between Basic Deluxe or Premium. The only things that change are the guidance and pop-up information they add to the software. Never have used Basic but did see one user report he used it for business. As to the guidance end a premium user said he did not see any thing that concerned him after taking my advice and going to Deluxe.
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I need:
Schedule C with full expense reporting
Investments with 1099-B importing
Anyone know the minimum package needed that includes these features? HR Block or any of the others?
Not sure if this changed, but Block didn't seem to offer guidance (unlike TTax,which is Q&A style and has useful info, along the way). Any example of a guidance difference ?
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You should read this thread as there aren't many replies and I answered and posted a reply that is what you are asking for but here it is again:
I've posted this in other threads: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
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