In which Turbotax sucks harder

[unixronin]

Mainly as a result of a massive price increase that not only de facto charges everyone now for electronic filing whether you use it or not, but you now get charged extra for each additional return beyond the first — even to print and mail.

With luck, this is Intuit jumping the shark.

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[otherbill.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase Joe Piscopo, we used TurboTax once...once.

I started by filling out the tax forms by hand (for a baseline). In comparison, TurboTax didn't find us any additional deductions, and in fact claimed we weren't entitled to one particular deduction when I was certain that we were. As a result, blindly trusting the software would've cost us money.

(Well, cost us more money—we'd already wasted money on the software, after all.)

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For our state tax forms, we can download PDFs off the state Dept.o'Rev. website. Not only do these PDFs have user-editable forms, but much of the arithmetic is calculated automatically.

Once the IRS reaches that point, I think demand for tax software will drop sharply.

[novel-tharkun.livejournal.com]

At least for the base 1040 forms the IRS pdfs are editable, I don't believe they do the math for you, as yet.

Unfortunately my state isn't savvy enough to actually produce editable pdfs, so I'm stuck with buying a product of sorts or a type-writer. (My handwriting is atrocious.)