I haven’t used TurboTax recently, but I just received a check from my state’s government saying that they’ve settled with Intuit over charging customers tax return services that should have been free.

This angers me greatly at how scummy TurboTax and Intuit have become over the years. For alternatives, I’ve been using FreeTaxUSA but I’m sure there are others that people can recommend.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Is it really that hard to do your own taxes? I was taught to do this in school and it’s really not hard if all you have to do is write in how much money you made and then claim the standard deduction. If your taxes really are that messy then you can hire an accountant to do it, and they’ll do it ten times better than any tax software could, because if the software could do it better then they’d bloody use the software.

    Edit: was mostly referring to people who work a job and that’s it, which is probably 80% of the population

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      1 year ago

      Yes. My taxes are insanely complicated. I do not have the attention to detail or time to do it myself.

      Tax accountant wants 1800 to do it and I’ve had multiple people fuck it up before.

      turbo tax wants 150. It takes me less than two hours. It’s only been fucked up once due to an rsu maturing in a different state and clicking us over into a different qualification for dual state income

      Also with our income we don’t qualify for free

      It has its place as a tax software and since it works I see no reason to spend time looking for a new one

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        1 year ago

        TT has twice tried to massively overtax me because of bugs in RSU and mortgage calculations.

        FreeTaxUSA for me.