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A comment on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free. Parent comment

Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by magashna on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:55AM (#21282057)
I think if you make under $70k or so you can do it online as well, there's a few sites that officially help you on behalf of the IRS.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by sneeze-slayer on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:08AM (#21282192)
Like TurboTax?
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by magashna on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:31AM (#21282449)
Turbotax appears to have one of the lower limits, and also are supposedly very difficult about doing the free option.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by sneeze-slayer on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:46AM (#21342523)
My point was more that these companies offer a solution that is just barely workable so that the IRS does not just create their own usable, free software. I honestly consider them a leech on the economy.
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