MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - feeling a li'l taxy

I've used TurboTax for the past 3 or 4 years (maybe longer). I could swear I didn't have to pay to file my Federal taxes. State Taxes? Yes. But I could always stop with TurboTax (TT for short), then just find a free fillable form from the irs.gov website.

This time I couldn't see any way to NOT have to pay to file my Federal taxes (regardless of them claiming it was "free" to file). But thankfully there are free fillable forms for Federal taxes. It was a bit of a headache figuring out what to put where... But when the numbers I got matched what TT gave me - I went with those and e-filed that way (for Federal). Then I did the same for my State taxes... Figuring what the numbers/amounts should be. I'll still need to mail it in.

So, even though I thought I'd just straight up quit using TT (since they can't be up-front and honest about their charges) -I figure next year I can just use them to FIGURE what my taxes should be, then use the free fillable forms.

Also, just like I tell myself every other year, don't start so freaking late.

Unless they (TT) figure they'll make their customers/users pay up-front to start. That would be rather diabolical.

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