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TBH most people should be using turbotax or similar. It's easy to screw up on taxes beyond not adding stuff up properly. We really should be making income tax
by novok 7y ago
TBH most people should be using turbotax or similar. It's easy to screw up on taxes beyond not adding stuff up properly.
We really should be making income taxes automatic for the default W2 case, like new zealand, but there is another story behind that.
- shkkmo 7y agoPlease don't give Intuit (makers of TurboTax) or H&R Block your money. They both actively lobby to keep taxes complicated / non-automatic and are a primary reason why it is so easy to screw up your taxes.
- airstrike 7y agoHappy to protest against them but any time you give me the opportunity to choose between paying $50 or manually preparing my taxes from scratch on paper, the answer is a no-brainer.
- shkkmo 7y agoThere is a official service called "free fillable forms" that you can use to file your taxes digitally. The UX is... a bit rough... but it works and is an alternative to preparing your taxes from scratch on paper. Alternatively, there a number of other tax software companies that do not actively lobby against tax simplification and consumer interests. TaxAct is one example I've seen mentioned on HN, but there are others. The problem is that "no-brainer" decisions like yours help keep us stuck in the same quagmire we are in now. I think it is worth a bit of time and/or money to push back against these kinds of shady business practices.