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You can e-file for free yourself. There are digital versions of forms like the 1040, schedule c etc...
by willholloway 11y ago
You can e-file for free yourself. There are digital versions of forms like the 1040, schedule c etc...
- jandrese 11y agoIIRC you can only e-file for free if you can use a 1040ez, which has some pretty severe limitations. For instance, you can't use it if you're claiming the very common mortgage interest deduction.
- bzbarsky 11y agohttps://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ lets you e-file for free with much less stringent limitations: you have to stick to the forms listed at https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/#/fd/forms.availability https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/#/fd/forms.availabilit... One caveat is that it will not do as much automatic propagation of numbers as it _could_, so you end up having to do some manual work that could be automated away. But it will certainly let you e-file. The second caveat is that this is basically a private organization funded by a consortium of tax-preparation companies, which means that (1) you have to trust them with your tax data (unlike the under-$62k thing that's run directly by the IRS as far as I can tell) and (2) there is zero incentive for this thing to become as good as the for-pay tax preparation software (hence the stupid things that could be automated but aren't).