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.
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
Guess you don’t have stock sales.
I used a paid prepared once. They used a program and I had to teach THEM how to handle RSU income.
Took longer and cost 10x as just doing it myself in FreeTaxUSA.
Or God forbid a wash sale.
I tried my hand at trading options once (don’t do it kids) and ended up needing to mail 100 pages to the IRS (snail mail, like in an envelope)