Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta...
by reactordev on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:30AM
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Sad part is, when I started working, this was normal. My father showed me how to do it. I did it for a few years and then TurboTax came along and I used that for free. Then they rug pulled me into a deluxe one year because I had 1099 income and ever since I’ve been jailed into paying if I want to use them. 1099 or not.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta...
by jayknight on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:54AM
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Switch to freetax USA. I have 1099 income and it's still free.
Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta...
by reactordev on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:22AM
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Besides the point. The point I was making is that because I had one year of 1099 income in the past, I was paywalled into paying. I no longer use TurboTax as my tax needs have changed. Thanks though but I wasn’t soliciting for alternatives.
Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta...
by bluGill on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:15AM
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I used to do that every year. It wasn't hard. However one year I forgot to copy line 12b from form 9876 to line 34c of form 5432 and when the IRS caught that I had a big mess to clean up (since state taxes copy federal taxes so I had to refile state with the corrected numbers...). Now I just pay a small fee to FreeTaxUSA (I figure they deserve some money for their efforts in creating software).
One thing I can say for sure: doing taxes with a computer takes me longer than filling out the paper forms by hand! There are so many delays while "calculated" (as if a ghz computer can't add numbers fast), and loading question pages that I can obviously skip (I never worked for the rail road, I'm not blind...) but take extra time because of how they setup the UI.