neidu3Mar 13

I just finished doing my 2025 taxes

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56745869

I just finished doing my 2025 taxes - sh.itjust.works

Spent 10 minutes with my SO, moving our shared deductions between us to see which distribution resulted in the lowest amount of taxes. Turns out that the tax authorities are pretty good at what they do, as the best distribution was what they’d already prefilled. Despite having very different income, no matter how we moved the numbers, the numbers at the bottom didn’t change in a manner where the total would result in a higher refund. So we both ended up filing our taxes with no changes to the prefilled values.

Show threadRhynoplazMar 13
Since we’re on the topic, this year I quit using turbo tax, and tried freetaxusa. It’s just as easy, they found me a bigger refund, and it’s a LOT less expensive to file.
Show threadbambooMar 13
Was it really $15.99 or is the marketing page hiding hidden costs for some situations (assuming you don’t need support or audit defense).
Show threadRhynoplazMar 13

I think it was $15.99 to file the state taxes. There are some extra services like you mentioned that you can sign up for, but you can ignore them. In the past Turbo would say Free file, but then interrupt you “looks like you have dependents, that’s going to cost you $20, oh no, you have stocks? Another $20 to file. Kids in college? That’s another $20.”

None of that this year! Already got my refund back too, so it’s just as quick as Turbo usually was.

Show threadbamboo
Amazing, yeah, that’s my hesitation with switching and investing time, to get charged at the checkout.
Mar 13 at 6:29pmWeb
Show threadRhynoplazMar 13
I thought the same thing, but I decided to see it through, and was very happy with the lack of shenanigans.