Intuit has been paying off our elected officials for decades to prevent the IRS from creating an online filing system. They have directly cost the American public probably hundreds of millions of dollars, and if there was any justice they’d be forced into bankruptcy.
Free Tax USA is free for federal always and state is like $15. Been using it for years.
Fuckem.
Roger, at Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. Roger, if I were using that microscope right now… I still wouldn’t be able to locate my interest in [Intuit’s] problem.
TurboTax lets you go through the entire process of entering information and telling you your refund amount before charging you.
I wasn’t sure if I trusted myself with the free system, so I did my semi-complicated taxes through TurboTax until I reached the payment screen, and then went and did them in the free system and confirmed that the dollar amounts matched. Then I submitted through the free system.
Next year, I’ll probably just trust myself more, so Intuit doesn’t get my data.
I tried to go that route and my TurboTax refund was much bigger than FTU. I wanted to transfer all my answers to FTU, but TurboTax wouldn’t let me go back and look at my individual answers without starting over. Seems like they got wise.
The day I take financial advice from a YouTube video with a fucking stupid thumbnail is the day I start investing in chocolate teapots
It’s not investment advice, it’s just a nice succinct video detailing that how the new free IRS system for filing taxes will finally completely replace the racket that is TurboTax and H&R Block, saving tax filers a lot of money.
You literally didn’t even understand what the video was about. Just made a knee jerk reaction.
I too don’t really like these kind of thumbnails, but sadly those are the kind that get more clicks. Clicks is what pays and people getting paid will lead to more content for us all.
Honestly…I’d buy a chocolate teapot
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