I don't normally like to promote products but after years of suffering through #turbotax, I got so fed up with their lobbying of congress to block free tax filing options and did a little reading. Bottom line, was that #freetaxusa (dorky name) worked extremely well, imported my old intuit data, website is faster, much cleaner flow through the sections and federal filing is free... Would recommend.. Link here if you want to try it

https://www.freetaxusa.com?friend=LvjRFH

#TaxAct upgrades me to their deluxe package b/c I paid $3 in foreign taxes, charging $60 EXTRA.

...so I'm trying #FreeTaxUSA. They note b/c I paid below $300, I don't have to file Form 1116 for the foreign tax.

...TaxAct.com is charging me $60 for them to do absolutely nothing. Assholes. I'm done.

#Tax question for the hivemind. I file my taxes through #FreeTaxUSA. Over the weekend I was able to log in and work as usual. On hearing about the Nazi toddler coup in the #treasury department, I'm wondering about a couple things.

1. Will FreeTaxUSA keep working?
2. Is it better to file our #taxes ASAP or wait to see how things settle out?

Just did my taxes in about 10 minutes using the same free (for Federal taxes, based on income) tool I used last year, which is very similar to use as TurboTax (which fraudulently charged people for years who should have had their returns done and filed at no charge).

The one good thing about Florida is no state income tax.

#link: https://www.freetaxusa.com

#FreeTaxUSA #IRS #Taxes #Federal #TaxReturn #TurboTax

So #FreeTaxUSA sent an update today that casually mentions they added AI sections to their ToS and privacy policy which say they use "AI" when you import docs, which is wildly unhelpful - OCR is technically AI, and of course you have to use that to parse some pdfs, so is that what they mean or are they chucking your SSN and tax info into an LLM??

(In the terms they make it sound like they are probably using gen "AI" in support processes, so, uh, that's bad if true.)

@Scottw

re:

> Friendly reminder: TurboTax is a pimple on the ass of society.

Yeap, that's correct, #FreeTaxUSA is way better alternative, not just because it allow us to not give money to #TurboTax, it really does the work just fine.

But, we shouldn't need neither of them, nor any other company to do our taxes.

The tax process should be as easy as a 2 pages form, prefilled, written or web. for free. The #IRS has all the info for the majority of the cases, W2, 1099-xxxx, etc.