IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax - eviltoast
    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      And your financial information need never leave the IRS and be put in the hands of a private company.

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      5 months ago

      No no, some of us enjoy struggling through page after page of attempts to push premium products and services, and never mind that these “free file” options generally don’t cover both state and federal. But hey, yay for H&R, they really need the business, right?

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      5 months ago

      I had to mail in my state taxes for NY due to NYC regulations, which I didn’t know about since I’ve been using TurboTax for 7 years. I was only informed of this after I had filed my taxes federally using the IRS system. There is no way to just file your state taxes online, you have to do both and if you submit them a second time it just gets rejected.

      It’s good that they’re doing this, but it caused a lot of headaches for me that I was unaware of.