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It takes me half an hour with FreeTaxUSA . It can be easy, but TurboTax doesn't like their software to be easy for some reason.
by fhdkweig 1y ago
It takes me half an hour with FreeTaxUSA . It can be easy, but TurboTax doesn't like their software to be easy for some reason.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y ago"some reason" is that they upsell you on additional features and "audit protection" in case you misuse their complicated software.
- nulbyte 1y agoIt took me about that long to do both fed and state with Free File Fillable Forms. I was so surprised, I wondered why I didn't check it out sooner. I think most Americans can do this just as easily. I know folks outside the U.S. like to riff on us for our complicated taxes and the pay-for filing lobbies, and yes, they have reason to. But, I really think the issue is that we folk in the U.S. are just too scared to try what really is a simpler method.
- gbear605 1y agoI do Free File Fillable Forms, and I’m something of an amateur tax expert - friends and family come to me for advice. But yet every year there’s some weird edge case that I have to figure out by digging through the Schedule D instructions or the 1040 instructions or… Sometimes I’ll go through one of the paid systems up until the submission step where you have to pay, to make sure that my numbers line up. The system is just really complicated if you have anything weird, and “anything weird” happens a lot.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoFreeTaxUSA is great but it took me much longer to figure how to deal with sales of RSUs.