"Free" tax filing online

[asterroc]

Here's an update on just how free they are. Turns out you can't send in a state one for free anywhere.

1040NOW.NET - $17.95 state
Online Taxes @ OLT.com - $7.95 state
H&R Block's TaxCut Free File - $29.95 for state
eSmartTax By Liberty Tax Service - $9.95 state
ezTaxReturn.com - $19.95 for State
Free TaxACT - $13.95 for state
CitizenTax - $12.88 state
Tax$imple-Deluxe Version - $7.95 state

Tax$imple and OLT have the same lowest price for printing/efiling state returns. OLT looks prettier and appears to have more guarantees, so I think I'm going w/ them.

Comments

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

how can they call it free then ??????

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Because you can send in the Federal for free, and I found those via the IRS so all they care about with calling it free is federal.

I just completed both federal and state including itemization (which of course turned out to be pointless) via OLC, took me ~1:25 and $8 for state. Turns out that in a couple days I will have to print a receipt from the IRS, sign, and mail it since this's my first time doing it online (IIRC), but that's a minor detail. So yeah, it's worth doing.