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The IRS Created a Free Tax Filing System, and TurboTax is Reeling (USA) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TurboTax lets you go through the entire process of entering information and telling you your refund amount before charging you.

I wasn't sure if I trusted myself with the free system, so I did my semi-complicated taxes through TurboTax until I reached the payment screen, and then went and did them in the free system and confirmed that the dollar amounts matched. Then I submitted through the free system.

Next year, I'll probably just trust myself more, so Intuit doesn't get my data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I tried to go that route and my TurboTax refund was much bigger than FTU. I wanted to transfer all my answers to FTU, but TurboTax wouldn't let me go back and look at my individual answers without starting over. Seems like they got wise.