Yes! The government should be required to have an electronic way to file your taxes for free. If people want to pay a tax preparing service, that’s fine, but a free option should be required by law. You shouldn’t have to pay your taxes and pay someone to submit them. Private companies clearly can’t be trusted with the free side, because they degrade it to try to upsell.
I'll do you one better: we should have return free filing: the government sends you a bill saying what they think you owe. If you agree, you send them a check. If you don't agree, you send in your paperwork.
@ToadOfHypnosis @CosmicTurtle0 Want something more bullshit? You get 3 years to find mistakes in your past returns, the IRS gets 7 years to find mistakes, and if'n you owe money, you owe interest since the underpayment.
@ToadOfHypnosis Not sure, I know that the rules really benefit the IRS, I should've owed $1800, but after that, interest (starts on the day it was due), penalties, and fees, I owed $4200. Nice racket they got there.
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in reply to Scrubbles • • •Excited to see forks for this. Wonder if each state could tailor it but not sure how complex it would be unfortunately.
TurboTax is a parasite to simple filing
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in reply to ToadOfHypnosis • • •I'll do you one better: we should have return free filing: the government sends you a bill saying what they think you owe. If you agree, you send them a check. If you don't agree, you send in your paperwork.
Most countries have figured this out.
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