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Re:Killing TurboTax by astura on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:44PM (#26333344)
Which begs the question if they essentially already know how much tax they think you should owe (for most people) why don't they present that number to get first and let you either agree or disagree?
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Re:Killing TurboTax by dllthomas on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:35PM (#26334044)
If we view it as an error checking process, it's better to come up with the two numbers independently. Whether the improvement is worth the costs, I don't know.
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Re:Killing TurboTax by sokoloff on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:43PM (#26338350)
They don’t know until mid to late summer. Your transcript is incomplete (or incompletely processed) prior to that.
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Re:Killing TurboTax by astrostl on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:02PM (#26372754)
Incompletely processed is more like it. The deadline for receipt of information from employers, etc. is Jan 31 with scaling penalties for tardiness.
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