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Re:13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep fi... by bigstrat2003 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:55AM (#37943752)
Hard agree with this. Filling out your taxes by hand is actually very easy if all you have is the basics (which is most people). When I was doing my taxes for the first couple of years as an adult, I did it by hand and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was. The instructions are very clear and to the point.
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Re:13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep fi... by hedora on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:30AM (#37944272)
Did you go to college?

I had a job on campus and a stipend, and that immediately tossed me into the deep end of “the tax code is actually ambiguous and the difference is three months rent”.

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Re:13 States join the IRS direct-file test after tax prep fi... by bigstrat2003 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:41PM (#37946818)
I did, although I wasn't in college at the time I started doing my taxes. I was a dependent on my parents' taxes while I was in college.
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