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by polski-g 220 days ago
Turbo tax is free for federal filers with no business income, same thing as this service. Except now no taxpayer dollars were spent on maintaining this. This would have been useful if it also did state taxes, which turbo tax is not free for.
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dmoy 220 days ago
No business income (including no Uber/doordash/etc due to schedule SE?), no dividends over $1500, no itemized deductions, no capital gains, no nanny (like you hiring a nanny), no unemployment income, no gambling winnings, no alimony, etc etc
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loco5niner 220 days ago
They were rolling out matching services state by state. Something like 12 last year. And Turbo tax is NOT "free for federal filers with no business income". Just look at the Costco Turbotax stands every year.
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beej71 220 days ago
The federal government doesn't do state taxes.

Luckily for me, my state rolled out its equivalent of Direct File a couple years ago, and it's fantastic. Just like Direct File was.

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tombert 220 days ago
Wasn't part of the impetus for the free file program because TurboTax actively hid the free filing options?

I am pretty sure that state filing would have happened in the future if the Trump admin hadn't killed it; you have to start somewhere, federal is as good a place as any.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

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