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by clogston 12y ago
Yes, indeed, they really do that. The person who has had their e-file reject must submit a paper return and call a special 800 number dedicated to this issue. It's a total double-whammy for the user. IRS tries to resolve these issues w
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by clogston 12y ago
> Overall, I've optimized to just using TurboTax, and I'm sure there is some laziness involved in that decision, but overall, unless something else is much much better, there isn't too much impetus to switch. And in fairne
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by clogston 12y ago
Oh FOR SURE. It's leaps and bounds better than paper forms... IRS says average time to prepare a 1040EZ(!) by hand is over 3.5 hours. Only ~5% of filers use paper forms anymore though. Maybe "enjoy" is a high bar? But surely
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by clogston 12y ago
> One of the craziest things is, it save their tax department money for every single tax filing done online vs paper One of the HUGE benefits of e-file for them is that there are sanity checks that happen almost immediately and if they f
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by clogston 12y ago
IRS estimates an e-filed tax return will have the refund issued within 21 days. The paper form equivalent takes 6-8 weeks. Source: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc152.html The other thing to know is that e-filed tax ret
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by clogston 12y ago
Both of those comments seem to come from call center workers (i.e., they mention clocking in, etc). Each site has it's own culture (and each site has cultures within cultures). Like any mid-sized company, Intuit has a broad mix of pers
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by clogston 12y ago
> and I thought there used to be a "Basic" product between "Free" and "Deluxe". There is, but it seems like they're not pushing it as hard this year: https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal
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by clogston 12y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work for Intuit/TurboTax and am now building a product in the same space. On topic: They rightly get beat up for this, and get beat up for their lack of pricing transparency, but somehow manage to always receive a
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by clogston 12y ago
"End users are more likely to pressure their vendors for better security in the future if they suffer more pain today." Your statement is true, but surely there's a better and less damaging way to reach the end goal? e.g., if
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by clogston 12y ago
"yet it hasn't stopped vendors from claiming they offer protection" 100% true. The argument Dan and others are trying to make is there are a lot of people caught in the cross-fire who have nothing to do with IDS-vendors clai
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by clogston 13y ago
In case anyone is wondering how to make this the default behavior: "encrypt-to YOUR_KEY_ID" in your gpg.conf
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by clogston 13y ago
When you've spent hours upon hours deep in the engine room of your product it's SO easy to forget that no one else knows what you've built. Doubly-so if you've come from the corporate world working on a product that alre
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by clogston 13y ago
Yeah, but keep in mind it's only applicable if you use instance-based storage (which you declare when you spin up the instance). If you use an EBS mount it's a moot point.
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by clogston 13y ago
> If you're writing that code, you SHOULD know every possible incorrect certificate format. If we define a correct format there are likely an infinite number of incorrect formats, no? A test explicitly checking for this bug would pr
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by clogston 13y ago
I started Common Form with two very good friends and it's been a hard grind to get live in time for this filing season! Some high level milestones: we started on Nov 22 2013, finished our final acceptance testing with IRS on Feb 13 201
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Show HN: Common Form – Federal 1040EZ Tax Preparation(common-form.com)
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