Paying taxes: free e-filing link

[skymama 37]

Apparently, if your AGI is $50,000 or less, you can use one of the free e-filing services linked on this IRS page.

I just heard about it and haven't tried it, so I don't know how it compares to something like Turbo Tax. But, if it saves you the money of buying the software plus the filing fee, I think it would be worth checking it out!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[JohnnyD 0]

Same software I think. The IRS has been sitting on this for at least a year per an agreement with Intuit.

[GTAVercetti 0]

free e-file has been around for awhile. TurboTax is just one of the ways your can do it. I don't know how long that 50,000 AGI has been around though.

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[JohnnyD 0]

I wasn't aware that anyone was allowing a free-file in past years. Anyway, there is a laundry list of companies that do it now, turbo tax being one of the many. The IRS was going to do a version of it themselves, but there were so many others willing to do it that they decided not to.
E-filing does some things for the IRS. It gives them a lot more information than they would have had if you file traditionally and it also allows them to quickly scrub returns for errors or omissions before they are "accepted". This cuts down on notices and audits.

[GogglesnTeeth 6]

I've been using "Kinplingers Tax Cut" which is now owned by H&R block for the past several years for doing my taxes. They offer free e-filing for one return (usually with a mail in rebate) with purchase of the program.
I usually get good returns with it except last year when I owed big time due to other reasons.
I'll be using that again this year.

Goggles and Teeth

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[PLFXpert 0]

I have to pay $15 every year. Damn the man!

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.