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IRS Giveaway:Tax-Filing Software

posted by martyb on Sunday January 25 2015, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-must-enter-all-numbers-in-hex dept.

"crutchy" writes:

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, about 70% of all US taxpayers are eligible for free federal income-tax-preparation and electronic-filing software through a program known as Free File. From the article:

Grappling with confusing tax forms and instructions may seem like the textbook definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

But there are a few ways for most taxpayers to make the task less burdensome. For example, about 70% of all taxpayers are eligible for free federal income-tax-preparation and electronic-filing software through a program known as “Free File.”

[...] Free File (IRS.gov/FreeFile) is a partnership between the Internal Revenue Service and a group of 14 tax-software companies, known as the Free File Alliance. The companies are offering products at no charge. But they aren’t available to everyone.

“If you earned $60,000 or less last year, you are eligible to choose from among 14 software products,” the IRS says.

Have you used this program before? What has your experience been? Would you recommend it to your fellow Solylentils?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by g2 In The Desert on Sunday January 25 2015, @02:52PM

    by g2 In The Desert (3773) on Sunday January 25 2015, @02:52PM (#137880)

    Yes, you do have a vote. The vote it's whether or not to follow the law, the vote is to get rid of the insipid fools who put these laws before us. Exercise your right to vote. Not your perceived right to ignore the laws you don't like.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @03:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @03:36PM (#137898)

    Exercise your right to vote. Not your perceived right to ignore the laws you don't like.

    Thanks for pointing that out. It's not a right to ignore bad laws, it's an obligation to ignore bad laws.

    "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."

    -- Thomas Jefferson

  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:22PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:22PM (#137998) Journal

    Really? When you get to vote between ebola infection or ricin poisoning, what's the fucking point?

    And yes, I only vote for third parties and I dearly hope I'm seen as a spoiler some day, because that's the best I can hope for -- that by spoiling someone will start to listen. Having a chance to actually vote for someone who would change the game though? That's a pipe dream -- I know it, you know it.