TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)

Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by aorth on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:01PM (#26106362)

> I'd suggest FreeTaxUSA.com as an alternative.

LOL I just tried to sign up and they rejected me because my personal email is on a .ch domain:

  The Email Address can't be a foreign email address ending with .ch.

Wowwwwww.

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Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by dastx on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:20PM (#26106590)

Certainly is a weird requirement. Could this possibly a governmental requirement? I certainly know governments have some silly requirements.

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Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by aorth on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:49PM (#26110836)

I contacted their support and they said it was for security purposes. Hah...

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Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by simonh on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:14PM (#26106517)

And yet US citizens resident abroad still have to file US taxes, even if they are dual citizens and have never lived in the US.

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Re:TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019) by mynameisvlad on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:20PM (#26106601)

But they have to file a 1040NR, which most of the tax software won't touch with a ten foot pole.

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