Doing my taxes online. Any recommendations?

Jan 10, 2008 6 Replies

Does anybody have any good recommendations for a cheap tax prep website? I use taxslayer now but just wanted to see who uses anybody other than the bigger guys (Turbo Tax, HR Block, etc.). There seems to be a lot of smaller companies out there and it's tough to pick out trustworthy sites.



Thanks!


Let me just say, you get what you pay for.

You should look at

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- the federal program is free (state extra!)

Well, you pay for what you get, but you don't always get what you pay for.

Stu

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:10:31 EST, Fred Williams wrote Re Re: Doing my taxes online. Any recommendations?:

Ditto on that recommendation.

I used to write my own .c program to do taxes, the gain being that ongoing revisions didn't require me to repeat any computations ; the downside being that I had to follow the directions. (coding itself is easy.) I only coded up exactly what I needed from the 1040 instructions book.

Then I went to a small now-forgotten company online two years, until the third year it turned out it couldn't handle ``income with respect to a decedent'' when that came up.

So I wound up with a large company online anyway.

I can't remember back far enough to when I might have actually done any genuine arithmetic myself unassisted.

I, too, agree with TaxAct.com. Have used them for years.

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