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Does anyone know of any open source software that can help with filing/calculating taxes? Would be very useful to people who don’t want to be stuck with proprie

• perl4ever 7y ago
  The normal approach is to keep copies in a format that isn't dependent on specific tax software, and the IRS only has a few years to audit you or ask for more money. I was undergoing a ten year background check once where I had to certify no government debts, and found a small underpayment (W-2 that the IRS had but I never received) and they wouldn't take my money. I think worrying about open source in this context is optimizing entirely the wrong thing. If you keep things simple, then at worst, you'd have to copy your printout onto the forms for an amended return by hand, and that wouldn't be too onerous.
• jfim 7y ago
  There's open tax solver, which helps with computing the numbers that go on the 1040. It doesn't do any of the handholding turbo tax does, but it's handy for doing tax simulations.