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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 codeulike on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:45AM (#21282586)
UK provides a web form. Pretty well done one considering the complexity. I think you can use your own software too if you like and theres some sort of submission api.

The only out-of-date thing I've noticed on the UK one is stuff like 'this PDF of your tax return is 1.5mb, on a dial up modem this might take 5 mins to download' etc. And I guess some people might still be on that kind of link so fair enough

edit: And yeah in the UK you dont have to file at all if your situation is simple (e.g. you just have one job and one source of income).

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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by sleepykoala on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:13AM (#21282890)
It's probably worth noting that most people in the UK don't have to file at all (if you're on a wage and not in the top tax band, it's all automatic in your paycheck), and if you have a dispute/complication you just write a simple letter to the tax office laying out your case.
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