while this may be a good price on TurboTax, it's not a good product. Intuit lobbyists are the reason our tax code is so complicated. There are plenty of alternatives out there that are free, including the IRS. Don't reward Intuit for making things complicated.
If you're filing with Turbotax come hell or high water, this is a good deal.
Always use caution when providing your financial information to an online service provider. It is recommended to use only trusted sources, such as IRS.gov, for these types of services.
Note also that this does not address your state filing requirements. Check with your state for local options, as some states do offer free services.
States don't charge for e-filing - Intuit does. That's one if the many ways they gouge us.
NY made it illegal to charge for e-filing because it obviously takes more work for them to process paper. I'm shocked they're the only ones.
That said, many states offer free e-file directly on their own department of revenue website. Here is a blog post with a list of those states: https://thefinancebuff.com/free-e...irect.html
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This is a better deal than the other ones at Amazon/Costco/Sams with $10 credit, only for those who aren't expecting any return checks from their state. You can print and mail the state filing.
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This is a better deal than the other ones at Amazon/Costco/Sams with $10 credit, only for those who aren't expecting any return checks from their state. You can print and mail the state filing.
You can still efile with Fed for free. It's states that usually charge for filing (never which is ass backwards as e-filing eliminates manual labor of scanning the paper returns)
Always use caution when providing your financial information to an online service provider. It is recommended to use only trusted sources, such as IRS.gov, for these types of services.
Note also that this does not address your state filing requirements. Check with your state for local options, as some states do offer free services.
I have a normal tax return and I also have a brokerage account which i trade on, a decent amount of trades per year, which isn't hard to accomplish. I purposefully don't do complex trades or buy weird investments that make taxes harder, like k-1s, etc. i get normal 1099-div, 1099-b, 1099-int.
last year i used TT prem, and because i wanted to compare, also tried tax slayer and tax act, since they're free. tax slayer and tax act had differences due to them not handling some things correctly.
i think if you just work and have no investments, tax slayer and tax act are probably a great choice.
there is a separate question of whether deluxe is as good as premier, prem is advertised as better for stocks/investments, but some say that deluxe does it just as good. unless someone actually buys both and compares, i dont know how we'd ever know.
for me the extra cost of prem is justified because it claims to be better for stocks and id happily lose the extra money to avoid an audit.
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That said, there are a number of free filing services endorsed by the IRS that you can use for free. These can be great if you have relatively simple finances. List is available from the IRS here: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free [irs.gov]
Always use caution when providing your financial information to an online service provider. It is recommended to use only trusted sources, such as IRS.gov, for these types of services.
Note also that this does not address your state filing requirements. Check with your state for local options, as some states do offer free services.
NY made it illegal to charge for e-filing because it obviously takes more work for them to process paper. I'm shocked they're the only ones.
That said, many states offer free e-file directly on their own department of revenue website. Here is a blog post with a list of those states:
https://thefinancebuff.
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You can still efile with Fed for free. It's states that usually charge for filing (never which is ass backwards as e-filing eliminates manual labor of scanning the paper returns)
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That said, there are a number of free filing services endorsed by the IRS that you can use for free. These can be great if you have relatively simple finances. List is available from the IRS here: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free [irs.gov]
Always use caution when providing your financial information to an online service provider. It is recommended to use only trusted sources, such as IRS.gov, for these types of services.
Note also that this does not address your state filing requirements. Check with your state for local options, as some states do offer free services.
last year i used TT prem, and because i wanted to compare, also tried tax slayer and tax act, since they're free. tax slayer and tax act had differences due to them not handling some things correctly.
i think if you just work and have no investments, tax slayer and tax act are probably a great choice.
there is a separate question of whether deluxe is as good as premier, prem is advertised as better for stocks/investments, but some say that deluxe does it just as good. unless someone actually buys both and compares, i dont know how we'd ever know.
for me the extra cost of prem is justified because it claims to be better for stocks and id happily lose the extra money to avoid an audit.