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0 pointsJumpCrisscross3y ago0 comments

> Is there a way to do your taxes without paying any money?

Do them yourself. The IRS has guidance and resources for those who are interested [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

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You can absolutely do your own taxes, either on paper and mail the forms or (possibly) via the Free File Fillable forms mentioned on the page you linked (as long as you don't hit a corner case). The Free File Fillable forms page [0] says "Make sure we fully support the forms you need" and links to another page with a lengthy list of limitations [1].

So yeah, we're in a place where the IRS says taxpayers "should file electronically with direct deposit if at all possible" [2] but also informs taxpayers that not everyone can use the IRS's forms to file electronically.

0: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

1: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

2: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-begins-2022-tax-season-urge...

CaptainNegative3y ago

Among unsupported forms, the validation step in Free Fillable Forms also has a number or bugs that prevents filing due to phantom arithmetic errors. It's beyond frustrating filling out everything on FFF, then needing to copy everything onto a third party service just to pay for the privilege of having my data harvested by a shady company and electronically filed exactly as it would have otherwise. The current situation is unworkable.

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