Turbotax Rescinds charge for printing more than one copy

Very good, that is pretty impressive.

That's nice, but I would be surprised (and annoyed) to see Amazon remove anything.

No, the IRS does not charge for this. They could not get the budget to implement eFile a number of years ago, so instead they wrote a spec and required that anyone wanting to submit returns to the IRS had to comply with a bunch of very expensive requirements. There's a bunch of validation checks that have to be done and the data has to be submitted in a very well defined format. Companies like Intuit stepped up and implemented the IRS requirements and (rightly so) wanted to be reimbursed for the investment.

You can argue that Congress screwed up big time, looking for someone else to pay for what should have been a self-funded program, but they wanted to spend the savings on other things.

You could also argue that it is unfair. It is true that the IRS does not charge per se for efile, but they ALSO provide support for the free efile program that is available for only a portion of the population that can meet the requirements - which is usually based on a low income (those earning $52000 or less which is about 70% of all taxpayers). For many in the tax arena, this is unfair since it is not available to all regardless of income. Plus the fact that typically those that have higher gross/net incomes would save the IRS money since their returns are generally more complicated with more numbers and data entry to perform. I, for one, will never efile until it is free (or at least at same cost for all); not that my particular return is as complicated as, say, Bill Gates, I am quite sure.

I really did not mean that I thought $52,000 was a 'low income'...very poor choice of words. I meant to say a income that was no higher than $52,000. The tone of my original sentence was not the sentiment that I meant to convey.

I agree... The only time I efiled was when Intuit rebated the full cost of efiling and I had a refund coming. Since I usually manage my witholding such that I have to pay a small amount every year, that nice flat envelope goes in the pay and the IRS data entry unit can deal with it.

Robert Neville wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I always thought Treasury would be way ahead if they simply paid the big 3 to do the software and then give it away to all TP, including efile.

scott s. .

TT lost me years ago with the restriction of installing on just one machine. I've used TaxCut since. I see they have not stopped their arrogant behavior.

Traveling

Just want to make sure everyone is clear, as the title is somewhat misleading. The additional charge was for preparing and filing additional returns. You could always print an unlimited number of copies of a return. All this is moot now as we have rescinded all fees for additional returns AND we also enabled you to e-file up to 5 federal returns free (5 is the limit imposed by the IRS).

Thanks for your feedback.

Bob Meighan VP, TurboTax

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I got fed up this year with Intuit's multiple tax return policy and, after using TT since the DOS days, I bought TaxCut. I have to say the TaxCut interface is HORRIBLE!!! It is like going back to Windows 3.1 from Windows Vista. If TT doesn't do anything dumb next year, I'll probably go back to TT.