FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX!  IT IS USELESS NOW!!!

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!

Friendly reminder as well that if you’re making less than $66,000 a year, you don’t need to pay to file your taxes and also all tax-paying softwares (eg rhymes with FurboFax) have a free filing option hidden in their websites. 

Have at it kiddos:

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes

You can also use Freetaxusa Very user friendly.

Every time I do my taxes it's a potent reminder that Turbotax and H&R Block are nothing except parasites on the US economy that purposefully lobby to make tax filing overly-complex so that they can continue to force you to buy absurdly-priced products after they've spent an hour telling you that you're using their free service. Smash them into dust

Hasan Minhaj has created an actually free website for doing your taxes online, and it includes both a gallery naming and shaming corporate tax avoiders, and THIS little gem - an ASMR video.  About taxes.  That definitely falls into the category of “things that are unfeasibly hot for some goddamn reason”.

10/10

It is literally named TurboTaxSucksAss.com and that is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

anyway reminder to

NOT USE TURBOTAX OR H&R BLOCK FOR YOUR TAXES

if youre filing a simple return where these two companies do NOT require you to pay any money: live your life. file away with them. youll get back what youre supposed to.

IF THEY ASK YOU TO PAY FOR ANYTHING TO UNLOCK YOUR FULL RETURN DO NOT DO IT.

listen. the IRS has a free filing system. go online and look up IRS free filing forms. they are currently available.

it will redirect you to the IRS website where they will show you a number of options to use in order to file your return 100% free.

example. turbotax was just in the middle of doing my return. they told me in order to unlock the extra hundred or so for my retirement deductions i would have to upgrade and pay $40 to them.

went to the website, chose fileyourtaxes.com which is in joint partnership with the IRS and they gave me my full refund 100% free.

AGAIN: if youre filing a simple return, no specifics just income and taxes feel free to use these companies. nothing bad will happen.

if they ask you to pay them more to do your taxes the right way dont do it and go check if there are still eligible websites on IRS.GOV to file 100% free.

GET ALL YOUR MONEY. THANK YOU.