More criminalizing of the poor. Off to the camps with you!
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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What's great about this is nothing. I tried to use it last week and the site was down already. It said "for maintenance" but for 3 straight days at the peak of tax season?
Worked great for me, but I did it in March. Saved me hundreds and it was less work for me than gathering records and getting them to HRBlock was in 2024. But yeah, discontinue an already developed program while spending a ghastly amount of money on a military parade honoring a felon traitor.
Had to be a difficult choice for the administration.
Keep the system that makes it easy for people to give you their tax dollars to steal vs. make it more difficult for them to fork over the cash, but you get to charge them to do it.
For fucks sake you cunts! Direct File is the best thing ever.
If we actually cared about government waste in the US, we would go after the insurance and tax prep companies. Fucking leaches on society. They only exist to siphon money from people.
I'm just going to see how long I can go without actually filing, maybe the country will completely collapse first.
How much money has H&R Block put in trump's pocket?
It’ll still be free for me because I’m not filing shit next year
I’m far from rich and i had to pay $250. To have my taxes done by an accountant. I could not figure out how to do what I needed to do with the free tax software.
It’s so over complicated.
Do you have a bunch of extra stuff that complicates it? My mom only needed help finding where to access it and filed hers and her fiance's no problem and she's the type that I have to remind how to use the remote shes been using for over a year.
If you're using the standard deduction, you're wasting money by not just doing it yourself. Takes like 30 min.
No, I have business expenses that need to be calculated. The service I used in the past changed their layout and I could not find where to enter business expenses and they never responded to my request for help.
So, I started over and eventually found where to enter the expenses, but I was not sure I was doing it right and then the site said I was reporting a loss for the year, which was not correct, so I just gave up.
There just needs to be a "How much were your business expenses and how much did you earn?
DOGE to the rescue, of course they'd save it right? ...right?
I've used a few "free" filing programs. You finally get to the end and ready to submit then bam, for some reason you have to pay
I've used free tax USA for years. I don't pay for filing my fed, just my state. But my taxes tend to be pretty simple, so I guess ymmv
Another for freetaxusa, I've only ever paid for state filing, and it's like $15. Worth it. They offer various "services" that naturally cost extra, but they're all optional. Never had an issue.
You picked the wrong one. I've been filing free for years.