• captainlezbian
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    1 year ago

    If you can do a 1040ez I did them by hand regularly until I married an accountant’s daughter and it wasn’t bad

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      The 1040ez is even worse! Everything in the 1040ez the government already has on you!

      1040 with a schedule A I get. If you have some sort of situation where you need to deduct medical debt or something like that, something the government wouldn’t already have.

      But 1040ez…literally is you just sending the government the info on your W-2.

      That’s it.

      And if you get it wrong, straight to jail.

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        1 year ago

        If you just messed up, the penalty is… paying the tax you should have originally. Or receiving the refund you should have originally.

        It’s only if you are actually committing fraud (which requires intent) that you go to jail.