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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 367: Cuomophobic
Forceful_Dragon 03/06/21 11:27:22 AM #393:	LordoftheMorons posted... Hey FD, I have a tax question A situation that came up for me last year was that I was apparently owed some very small amount of money (less than 10 bucks I think) because of something having to do with dividends on foreign stock. Because of that, I was forced to pay much more than that to upgrade from the free version of whatever tax software I was using. Would it have been fine to just have not reported that (since doing so would make my refund smaller rather than larger) to have avoided the larger fee on the software? red13n posted... use the link from the IRS website. This will bypass that. At least it does for turbotax. If you use the tax software's free link they'll sucker you in. Basically this. I'll elaborate: This is the IMPORTANT INFORMATION that EVERYONE should know. 1) Go to www.irs.gov 2) Click "File your taxes for free" 3) If your income is below 72,000 there will be an option to file your taxes for free. And that's regardless of how complicated they are. The important distinction is that you *use the link from this irs.gov page to reach the filing website.* ~~ For example, I use TaxAct to file my taxes. If I went to the TaxAct website directly and set up an account I would definitely be charged to file my taxes. But instead I click the link on the irs.gov page and so I set up a Free version TaxAct account and they cannot possibly charge me. Those sites are all required to have a free filing option if you meet certain income requirements (which vary from site to site). But they are not required to make it apparent when you just go directly to their site. So millions of people every year end up paying their software when a couple of extra clicks would have them filing for free. red sox 777 posted... No. That would be illegal. But you don't need to buy the software - you can fill out the forms yourself. I mean, this is true, but NOBODY should be filing taxes by mail this year. We are SOOOO backed up that you are adding months of potential delay by filing by mail currently. But if you do want to file by mail and you have enough of an understanding to fill out the forms yourself (which is honestly not that hard if you go line by line and refer to the 1040 instructions if you get confused) then you can use the "Free File Fillable Forms" page on irs.gov to populate the forms and then print them out. CaptainOfCrush posted... The people who will need to amend their already filed tax returns to get a bigger refund will also need to pay their tax preparers again in order to amend them. Talk about a wet fart. Which is why (almost) nobody should be paying to have their taxes filed in this day and age. --- ~C~ FD https://imgur.com/dGDfxaw <cite>Forceful_Dragon posted [p:951408088] in Politics C... [t:79327586]...</cite> <quote>LordoftheMorons posted... </cite> <quote>Hey FD, I have a tax question A situation that came up for me last year was that I was apparently owed some very small amount of money (less than 10 bucks I think) because of something having to do with dividends on foreign stock. Because of that, I was forced to pay much more than that to upgrade from the free version of whatever tax software I was using. Would it have been fine to just have not reported that (since doing so would make my refund smaller rather than larger) to have avoided the larger fee on the software?</quote> red13n posted... </cite> <quote>use the link from the IRS website. This will bypass that. At least it does for turbotax. If you use the tax software's free link they'll sucker you in.</quote> Basically this. I'll elaborate: This is the IMPORTANT INFORMATION that EVERYONE should know. 1) Go to www.irs.gov 2) Click "File your taxes for free" 3) If your income is below 72,000 there will be an option to file your taxes for free. And that's regardless of how complicated they are. The important distinction is that you use the link from this irs.gov page to reach the filing website. ~~ For example, I use TaxAct to file my taxes. If I went to the TaxAct website directly and set up an account I would definitely be charged to file my taxes. But instead I click the link on the irs.gov page and so I set up a Free version TaxAct account and they cannot possibly charge me. Those sites are all required to have a free filing option if you meet certain income requirements (which vary from site to site). But they are not required to make it apparent when you just go directly to their site. So millions of people every year end up paying their software when a couple of extra clicks would have them filing for free. red sox 777 posted... </cite> <quote>No. That would be illegal. But you don't need to buy the software - you can fill out the forms yourself.</quote> I mean, this is true, but NOBODY should be filing taxes by mail this year. We are SOOOO backed up that you are adding months of potential delay by filing by mail currently. But if you do want to file by mail and you have enough of an understanding to fill out the forms yourself (which is honestly not that hard if you go line by line and refer to the 1040 instructions if you get confused) then you can use the "Free File Fillable Forms" page on irs.gov to populate the forms and then print them out. CaptainOfCrush posted... </cite> <quote>The people who will need to amend their already filed tax returns to get a bigger refund will also need to pay their tax preparers again in order to amend them. Talk about a wet fart.</quote> Which is why (almost) nobody should be paying to have their taxes filed in this day and age. --- ~C~ FD https://imgur.com/dGDfxaw</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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