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I am starting to think about using their tax service. I've always used H&R, but I'm getting tired of paying for it when there appears to be several free options out there. Anyone tried it yet. And sorry in advance if this is the wrong forum.
I had started using it, but didn't get any farther than inputting my HSA information. For some reason it was trying to tell me that I needed to be taxed on it, even though everything I had entered was correct and should not be taxed. I probably could continue on and see if it figures itself out, but I already have all my stuff entered into H&R Block online and it all shakes out good.
I used CreditKarma Tax this year and already got my federal refund. Granted, preparing my tax should be easy since I only have one W-2 and some dividend income to report. I really found their process to be pretty painless and easy to navigate. Will recommend for sure.
I have always used turbo tax for our biz. And then Tax Act for the past 4 or 5 years for personal. Before that turbo tax for both. It takes about a week working on and offf to do the business return. i usually do it in the Spring. I am sure I owe around $7K am don't look foward to paying it.
I just finished my return using creditkarma. My return was an exact match to what I put in with H&R so I decided to save some money and filed with creditkarma. Great experience. Felt smooth, no glitches and 100% FREE!
I tried it, and it would've been effective for me in other years, but not this year; just wasn't featured enough when it came to deductions.
So I wound up filing via Turbotax anyway. I'd certainly suggest everyone try both since it costs nothing but time to at least build out the tax return (and information gathering is the hard part anyway) and compare for themselves.
Wasn't a big surprise to me that CK wasn't as featured as Intuit's product that has been online for more than a decade now, but I'll still keep trying it as saving $80 or whatever is saving $80.
@Revelate wrote:I tried it, and it would've been effective for me in other years, but not this year; just wasn't featured enough when it came to deductions.
So I wound up filing via Turbotax anyway. I'd certainly suggest everyone try both since it costs nothing but time to at least build out the tax return (and information gathering is the hard part anyway) and compare for themselves.
Wasn't a big surprise to me that CK wasn't as featured as Intuit's product that has been online for more than a decade now, but I'll still keep trying it as saving $80 or whatever is saving $80.
What do you mean that it wasn't as featured for deductions? From what I can tell it has everything.
@gardini51 wrote:
@Revelate wrote:I tried it, and it would've been effective for me in other years, but not this year; just wasn't featured enough when it came to deductions.
So I wound up filing via Turbotax anyway. I'd certainly suggest everyone try both since it costs nothing but time to at least build out the tax return (and information gathering is the hard part anyway) and compare for themselves.
Wasn't a big surprise to me that CK wasn't as featured as Intuit's product that has been online for more than a decade now, but I'll still keep trying it as saving $80 or whatever is saving $80.
What do you mean that it wasn't as featured for deductions? From what I can tell it has everything.
Hrm, when I went through I wasn't able to do educational nor prior capital losses. Maybe I missed it, but there was a major variance in the two numbers... could've been user error I guess.
@Revelate wrote:
@gardini51 wrote:
@Revelate wrote:I tried it, and it would've been effective for me in other years, but not this year; just wasn't featured enough when it came to deductions.
So I wound up filing via Turbotax anyway. I'd certainly suggest everyone try both since it costs nothing but time to at least build out the tax return (and information gathering is the hard part anyway) and compare for themselves.
Wasn't a big surprise to me that CK wasn't as featured as Intuit's product that has been online for more than a decade now, but I'll still keep trying it as saving $80 or whatever is saving $80.
What do you mean that it wasn't as featured for deductions? From what I can tell it has everything.
Hrm, when I went through I wasn't able to do educational nor prior capital losses. Maybe I missed it, but there was a major variance in the two numbers... could've been user error I guess.
You might be right, I was just wondering. I do know that it for some reason was wanting to tax some of my HSA withdrawals after i did that senction. Maybe it would have 'fixed' itself if I went further into it, but I decided to just stay with H&R Block since that's who I have been using for year. Maybe next year I will put more effort into seeing if the Credit Karma Tax is worthwhile.