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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by Nursie on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:31AM (#21281822)
In Australia a sort of spreadsheet-like app is published each year. It pulls in data from a variety of sources (banks and employers mostly, IIRC), fills in everything it can and then lets you do the rest.

Windows only last time I did it (7 years ago?), things may have improved further since then.

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by LilBytes on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:35AM (#21281875)
All Web based now, no thick client. It still pools in all of your data from various sources as the old e tax client did. It was only Windows too from what I recall. It's all been centralised in myGov for a few years.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by stonith on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:35AM (#21281874)
It's online via mygov these days. took a couple of steps back initially since it was missing functionality but I think it's mostly there now.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by crummy on Thursday October 17, 2019 @06:05PM (#21286776)
I moved to Australia last year and was shocked that it took me less than two minutes to file taxes. What a dream.
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