#file taxes for free

[onetwistedmiracle]

Americans and friends of Americans: please reblog this, here and elsewhere. Reblog it often. Propublica can be trusted and it should not cost money to file our fucking taxes.

[rascal-rose]

learning a lot about pizzano from the newest website update gotta say, learning he's done taxes was a real surprise to me

(check out pizzano's super cool epic site here)

[nando161mando]

Your tax dollars hard at work

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

IRS Free File Program

US taxpayers whose adjusted gross income (AGI) is less than $79,000 for 2023 can use the IRS Free File Program to file their taxes: https://www.irs.gov/irs-free-file-do-your-taxes-for-free

It's offered through a number of partners, but you have to start on the IRS Free File site to have the fee waived.

If you made more than the limit, you can still use the Free File site to get fillable forms if you want to file a paper return, or have them for calculation purposes.

You can also use the site to file an extension for free, regardless of your income.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Whew, OKAY.

Cutting it close this year, but I finally got my taxes filed. (Under an extension, of course. I think the money I paid in April to get the extension is part of why my return is so big... because I do actually get a return this year, but I had to Pay Something to get the extension, according to what I could figure out.)

Also: Who knew having so many health issues means a healthier tax return? (Thank you, HSA! The "high deductible" part of my employer's health insurance plan sucks, but I'm really starting to see the beauty of the tax benefits you get with an HSA.)

[bitchesgetriches]

How to File Your Taxes FOR FREE in 2022: Simple Instructions for the Stressed-out Taxpayer

The United States is known for many things. It’s the global center of hot dog eating contests; the birthplace of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; and one of the only countries whose tax collectors say, “We know how much you owe in taxes this year, but we want you to take a guess at it. And if you guess wrong, we’re going to punish you.”

No seriously: that’s literally what tax filing season is all about.

Most people with jobs have taxes deducted from their paychecks throughout the year. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the entity responsible for handling tax matters in the United States, keeps pretty good records of that shit. They almost always over-tax some of us for reasons that are convoluted and boring and best left to another article. And they under-tax others for much less complex reasons.

But what that means is, at the end of a tax year, the IRS will owe some of us money, and some of us will owe the IRS money. And we have to file paperwork with the government (“filing taxes“) to get that all sorted out.

Keep reading.

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[le-oof]

in this house, we celebrate superbowl by having the tv going in the background, while sitting on the floor, surrounded by papers, doing taxes with the free irs tool

[mobydyke]

sleeper agent activation while doing my taxes

[nominalnebula]

friendly reminder that tuesday april 18th is the deadline to file your taxes in the u.s.

[anonymousdandelion]

Reasons in favor of using TaxSlayer — or another of the IRS Free File Guided Tax Preparation Options — if you need to file US taxes and don't want to fill out the forms yourself:

free filing for federal taxes if you earn less than $73K a year; state taxes may be free as well depending on state

easy to use and relatively intuitive (as much as anything tax-related can be, anyway)

fills out the forms for you based on the information you enter, but you can still look the forms over before filing if you want to double-check

avoids giving money to the evil of TurboTax

no special software installation required; all you need is an internet browser

Reasons in favor of using TaxSlayer specifically:

whoever came up with the name was unequivocally a marketing genius

• you might not particularly want to DO your taxes, but I'm willing to bet you want to MURDER them

[phoenixiancrystallist]

I hate filing tax returns

[nando161mando]

"Do you pay your taxes to kill us?"

A Palestinian child shows an American-made munition used by Israeli tanks to destroy Gaza, addressing Americans whose government sends their tax money as weapons to Israel to assist in killing Palestinians.

[anastasiaoftheironwood]

Hello, American followers! If your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for 2022 is $73,000 or less, you can file your return for free via the IRS.

From the IRS website: The Guided Tax Preparation service provides free online tax preparation and filing at an IRS partner site. The partner delivers this service at no cost to qualifying taxpayers. Taxpayers whose AGI is $73,000 or less qualify for a free federal tax return.

Don't pay Intuit, or H&R Block. If your taxes don't require professional assistance, you don't need to pay to file!

[drbtinglecannon]

Just doing a last minute reminder to fellow usamericans to file your taxes before April 17th 2024, with a high recommendation you use the IRS free filing or one of the affiliate programs they have if you make less than 79k a year (because the more people use it the better, fuck Inuit TurboTax & H&R Block)

You will need to make an ID.me account which isn't really any more difficult than making any other login (you will need your SSN tho), but the filing itself was so simple it took me no time at all and was way faster than using TurboTax because the IRS site doesn't waste a bunch of time doing needless animations to "show your progress" while filing

I filed my taxes a week ago and I've already gotten both my federal and state returns direct deposited. I've never gotten my returns so quickly, it has never been so easy to file, and if people continue to use this service from the IRS it'll only get better.

Also important things to remember with tax season! The IRS will never call you with an automated response about your taxes, those are scam calls just ignore them, and if you do make a mistake while filing don't worry too much because the IRS will just quietly fix your return and either mail you the check/bill or direct deposit it. Happy filing! You got this!