TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes

Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by ApolloFortyNine on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:10AM (#19719476)

I used Free Tax USA this year, and it ended up giving me the same number Turbo Tax did (since you can do Turbo Tax for free until the end).

My taxes include a multitude of stock sales, losses (from calls and puts), as well as my W2.

It takes a little longer to fill out then Turbo Tax due to the lack of integrations with banks and what not, but I still finished the whole thing in less than an hour. It's free for Federal, and they wanted something like $10 for my state so I did it out of lazyness.

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by geomark on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:19PM (#19725301)

Does Free Tax USA handle US expats who don't have a US mailing address? Some years ago TuboTax did not support electronic filing so I was forced to print out the tax return and send it via a third world postal service. Not a good feeling.

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by MandieD on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:56AM (#19727304)

No, they don't - I just tried it.

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