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Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by dizzant on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:29PM (#26105292)
Let me add my recommendation for FreeTaxUSA.com. I am a newly married grad student on fellowship, which implies juggling estimated taxes, confusing withholding rules, scholarship income, a name change, and first-time joint filing. Needless to say, I am not a "simple" case. After TurboTax failed to prepare my forms correctly (!) and wanted to charge me for the displeasure, I went looking for an alternative. FreeTaxUSA.com is where I landed.

The interface is fairly minimal. The workflow mirrors the questions/boxes on the IRS forms/instructions, a very helpful feature in my situation since I could easily cross-reference the relevant IRS publications when necessary. They provide excerpts from the documents as you go, which is all I needed in many instances. Unlike TurboTax, the prepared forms were actually correct (to the best of my knowledge, I am not a tax lawyer).

Simple, cheap, reliable. Would and do recommend.

EDIT: Story is related to last year, I plan to use them again this year.

Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by DavidPeiffer on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:53PM (#26105587)
I also like their bookmark feature. I commonly realize I need a bit of information and can add a note about my questions I need to research more, or what form I'm waiting on.

Once my bookmarks are clear, I know I'm good to submit.