I will be boycotting TurboTax this year. Their latest ad campaign[1] is particularly egregious. It claims that (with TurboTax's help) "people can be good at anything... even taxes". Given the amount of lobbying that Intuit does to make taxes more complicated, this message is disingenuous at best.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.campaignlive.com/article/turbotax-returns-new-campaign-culminating-super-bowl-spot/1669659" rel="nofollow">https://www.campaignlive.com/article/turbotax-returns-new-ca...</a>
I have been very satisfied with CreditKarma's free tax filing. It has _actually_ been free for me, while TT has felt like a bait-and-switch ("felt like" because it is).<p>Yes, I realize that even though I am not paying for the product, I'm giving them the benefit of my personal data. But at least I am not aware of CK lobbying congress to keep an unnecessarily complex tax system.
For most of my life, I just worked my own taxes and filed on paper. Used TT recently as my taxes were quite complex for a few years.<p>It seems now that filing on paper is no longer a practical thing to do, time- and complexity-wise. What's the closest thing available these days? (for federal and all states, obviously)
I don't really want to go with somebody I've never heard of, but H&R Block seems to be providing their free option to anyone with income under $69K. They have an option to import your previous year's Turbotax file.
Does anyone know of any open source software that can help with filing/calculating taxes? Would be very useful to people who don’t want to be stuck with proprietary software