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            The others are so bad that it seems like they are there to distract people from freetaxusa. It’s like Intuit was able to convince the IRS to add a bunch of filler apps to give people a bad experience and drive them back to Turbotax. That’s why I don’t recommend that list. It seems intentionally misleading and distracting to me.

            The IRS has been cozy with Intuit for decades, and should not really be trusted with advice on free or affordable tax prep solutions.

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      I never gave them a chance because their name screamed: scammy site designed to lure old people into file taxes there.

      But last year someone on here or reddit kicked off a thread and tons of people were singing it’s praises.

      So I checked it out after TurboTax was trying to charge me like $230 to do my taxes.

      It was easier than TurboTax and I got the same numbers at the end, so I decided to go with them. I ended up spending $10 or something for the ability to refile amendments later or something. Honestly, I wanted to give them some money because I want them to stick around.

      It was a great experience. I’ll be using them moving forward.

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        I second that, been using olt for years now and it’s super affordable and reliable. Not the cleanest interface though

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          To add to this, you can also export your last year tax documents (from TurboTax or any other tax service) and import them into freetaxusa so you don’t need to manually enter all of that info! Made it super easy to switch to them last year, just wish I had found out about them sooner tbh

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      I highly recommend Cash App Taxes if you can believe it. I was skeptical but it was totally free both state and federal, whereas everywhere else appears to charge for state. Did mine last year and it was awesome, I previously was using TaxAct until they started increasing prices year after year and also kept getting worse at upselling for the state filing.

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        2 years using this also. Our incomes had gotten too high for many of the IRS free options, but it worked great.