I haven't manually entered more than a trivial amount data into TurboTax in years. Most banks and brokerages seem to be on the direct-download bandwagon these days.
Are you endorsing TurboTax as some sort of appropriate monopoly on tax prep? My bank can tie in to TurboTax, but why should I have to support a private company lobbying to make the tax code worse on purpose just to do my taxes easily?
I went through the same thing as the commenter above and it was OBNOXIOUS. Even worse, there's no real reason for it be done the way it is.
Oh, and then I realized I'd made a really stupid (but easy to make) mistake that altered the amount I owed by $12 and had to file an amended return.
Really really obnoxious.
I'd bet anything people would care 10x less about getting taxed if filing weren't such a hassle.
> I don't care about the 30 dollars turbotax charges me, I'll send 30 dollars straight to the CEO or promise to burn it. What bothers me is that I've been forced to do manual data entry - a pet peeve of mine as a programmer - because the government has been lobbied specifically to be less efficient.
in which the author reveals that he or she uses Turbotax, but finds the manual entry of data into the program onerous. I found this interesting as a criticism, since my own experience is that I virtually never have to manually enter anything into Turbotax. There was no endorsement of Turbotax or other judgement about the primary question under discussion in the article.
I went through the same thing as the commenter above and it was OBNOXIOUS. Even worse, there's no real reason for it be done the way it is.
Oh, and then I realized I'd made a really stupid (but easy to make) mistake that altered the amount I owed by $12 and had to file an amended return.
Really really obnoxious.
I'd bet anything people would care 10x less about getting taxed if filing weren't such a hassle.