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Re:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing by Lionga on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:40PM (#37365334)
You guys can not just fill out online forms from the gov. to submit taxes? And I thought Germany was bad because it was online but about 5 to 10 pages and then wait 2 months for the agency to check.

Happy I live in Romania now where it is basically 1 form with between 1 (company/cap gains) and 5 (lots of extra income) lines to fill out (and 80% of people don't need to fill anything), submit and get your owed taxes in about 5 minutes.

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Re:Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing by ndriscoll on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:40PM (#37365768)
We can fill out online forms for free. I do it every year. The service is on the sketchy looking freefilefillableforms.com

For most people just receiving a check from an employer, they'd just need to fill out one short form. For more complicated situations, that site has the other forms you need, and some of them are set up to auto-calculate values across forms.

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