Last year I was all "nya I paper filed" and it took approximately three eons for my return to arrive. I am finally taking a step. A big step. The e-file step
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the software to prep is very good, although a bit dumbed down for us what gets it. Technically the Federal is "free" and you pay $9.95 for the state return, and you do all the info online. To DL the software it's more. It might actually give you some help with your part year resident return too. That might cost extra, I've never been in that situation. You might be at least able to do the Feds for free.
I help out my Ranger friend with his, and TaxSlayer doesn't charge for full time military, which I like a lot. So I've seen it in action every year. It's good, it's secure, it's easy to use.
I know you don't want to pay. I have no idea of the other services tho, but the IRS website will have a list of their authorized sites, and you can double check their rules to see if you qualify for free filing. Mostly tho, the sites want to charge for the state filing. Bastards.
(This was probably no help, since pay < free. :( Give me a poke if you have any questions, I might be able to help you out, or at least point you in the right direction. Most of the states operate on the same principals, even if sometimes the forms are bananas)
heheheh - the Ranger giggled for a while when I told him which site I thought was best. He stopped laughing at the "free" part. I got a few more people turned on to it too. Same reaction all around "Is that a fake website? that sounds weird!"
it is really a crime what some places charge for efiling. You'd think it would be easier, and free!
But all it takes is to plug the info back in. The interface isn't junky and you can do it with a minimum of fuss. Takes about 5 minutes to plug the Ranger's in, it pro-formas info from prior years, so it might take another 10 to get that all in, plus some info from last year they'll need. (so you need your 2007 return to complete)
Whatever you do that this point, I don't know any where or any software that will just let you plug the numbers into the form and send. They will want to recalculate. Although I DO wonder if H&R Block will do that? However, they will try and bully you and upsell you and I'm sure their trasmission only option, if they have one, is overpriced.
As an aside, if you mail it in NOW, as opposed to April, you shouldn't see such a long wait time. But it will be longer. Before March 15 is best, that's the corp tax deadline.
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the software to prep is very good, although a bit dumbed down for us what gets it. Technically the Federal is "free" and you pay $9.95 for the state return, and you do all the info online. To DL the software it's more. It might actually give you some help with your part year resident return too. That might cost extra, I've never been in that situation. You might be at least able to do the Feds for free.
I help out my Ranger friend with his, and TaxSlayer doesn't charge for full time military, which I like a lot. So I've seen it in action every year. It's good, it's secure, it's easy to use.
I know you don't want to pay. I have no idea of the other services tho, but the IRS website will have a list of their authorized sites, and you can double check their rules to see if you qualify for free filing. Mostly tho, the sites want to charge for the state filing. Bastards.
(This was probably no help, since pay < free. :( Give me a poke if you have any questions, I might be able to help you out, or at least point you in the right direction. Most of the states operate on the same principals, even if sometimes the forms are bananas)
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it is really a crime what some places charge for efiling. You'd think it would be easier, and free!
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I got so excited that WI would make it easy... until they made it hard. :(
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But all it takes is to plug the info back in. The interface isn't junky and you can do it with a minimum of fuss. Takes about 5 minutes to plug the Ranger's in, it pro-formas info from prior years, so it might take another 10 to get that all in, plus some info from last year they'll need. (so you need your 2007 return to complete)
Whatever you do that this point, I don't know any where or any software that will just let you plug the numbers into the form and send. They will want to recalculate. Although I DO wonder if H&R Block will do that? However, they will try and bully you and upsell you and I'm sure their trasmission only option, if they have one, is overpriced.
As an aside, if you mail it in NOW, as opposed to April, you shouldn't see such a long wait time. But it will be longer. Before March 15 is best, that's the corp tax deadline.
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