The agency, which is working on implementing state filing into its pilot, estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the program for the 2024 filing season.
In the meantime… I highly recommend people try out FreeTaxUSA (aka TaxHawk). They charge $15 to e-file both Federal and State taxes, with no upcharge for self employed people.
Yep, there actually is a free version that’s truly free for some people (Free File), but the company behind TurboTax actively hid it. They instead heavily marketed another version of TurboTax (Free Edition) as “free, free, free!”, only to tell people who were already halfway through filing that their taxes were “too complicated” and required large payments after all. Horrible tactics and they were fined for it.
In the meantime… I highly recommend people try out FreeTaxUSA (aka TaxHawk). They charge $15 to e-file both Federal and State taxes, with no upcharge for self employed people.
For TurboTax Home & Business it would be $190.
FTU usually does federal for free, don’t they? My last filing was free federal and $15 state.
Yep. Federal is free with options to buy up for other benefits.
freefillableforms.com is a run by the IRS. It is a free federal e-file; you just have to do the math yourself.
I use turbo tax to do our taxes in anada and just use the free option.
If your taxes are simple enough for the free version that’s great! Promising free is 100% a way that they get you in the door and upsell you though.
Yep, there actually is a free version that’s truly free for some people (Free File), but the company behind TurboTax actively hid it. They instead heavily marketed another version of TurboTax (Free Edition) as “free, free, free!”, only to tell people who were already halfway through filing that their taxes were “too complicated” and required large payments after all. Horrible tactics and they were fined for it.
It’s likely different for Canadians than Americans though.
Right on the website for the CRA it has a list of free tax software.
I have a buisness and claim taxes common law. I have never had to pay.