• Thinker@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    If you’re in any of these states:

    • Alaska
    • Arizona
    • California
    • Connecticut
    • Florida
    • Idaho
    • Illinois
    • Kansas
    • Maine
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Nevada
    • New Hampshire
    • New Jersey
    • New Mexico
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Oregon
    • Pennsylvania
    • South Dakota
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Washington state
    • Wisconsin
    • Wyoming

    You can use the IRS’ new Direct File service. It’s what we should’ve had ages ago, letting citizens file their taxes directly without a for-profit middle man. There are still a couple of scenarios they don’t support, since it’s still in development and is only in it’s second year of use, but in my experience it’s already competent and helpful.

    And, as a bonus, you don’t have to give any money to Intuit/TurboTax to keep lobbying the government to make our tax code as arcane as possible so that people need their services to file taxes.