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What/who do you use for Taxes
If you do them on your own do you use Turbo Tax, H&R Block, Tax Slayer, etc.?
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Re: What/who do you use for Taxes
Technically, if you're doing this, you need to do you official fed. return as MFJ, but then do a "mock" MFS to use for each spouse for the state returns. It's a PITA, but the only real way to make sure you account for everything.
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TaxAct. You couldn't pay me enough money to use H&R Block.
I changed my name
We also usually use Turbo Tax, just wondering if that was the norm or if people had a different preference.
Why are so many people against H&R block?
I was wondering that too. I always thought the programs were pretty similar and had no issues with either H&R Block or TurboTax, but it sounds like others have.
We've had them done at the base tax clinic the last few years. We have a couple complicating factors that make them a bit difficult to do in the computerized tax forms.
Although, I think we may have finally figured out how to properly handle the wacky items on our own now, so we might just use Turbo Tax. (it's my default, and I think you can get it free from USAA)
For entertainment - the first year I did US Taxes, I actually did them completely by hand. As in, I downloaded the forms, read the instructions, grabbed a pen, and filled them out.
That was a really wacky year, though, because I had income in two different countries, and had residency in two different countries thru the year, as well...
I started off using H&R Block; but over the last few years I noticed that the questions were less forthcoming and finding an answer to understand what the heck they were asking me was difficult and I got way frustrated. I quit using them the first time I filed taxes jointly with DH (the year we were married) and had to take my taxes in to someone to double-check what I was getting from H&R. Even though I ended up paying the consultant $200; that move still SAVED us money over what H&R was saying we owed. The following year I switched to Turbo and never went back to H&R because of that ridiculousness.