This may not apply to many of us but it could at some point down the road.
Read and be aware.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beware...b7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

My acct. switched me to this. I still gotta mail in about 10 paper forms tho.

My accountant in Alaska didn’t even have his tax data computer online! Everything was paper forms, and mailed in.

I still do everything on paper. Much safer IMO.

I just received a letter from the IRS pushing me to E-file, touting all the benefits. i wasn't planning on switching from paper filing. After reading the WSJ article it seems I made a good decision.

We ran thru the taxes last weekend if you check basically anything that gets you a refund , BAM turbo tax wants $39 for fed and 39 for state to file.

of 4 sets of taxes in the house 1 had no additional charge the 19 year old with 1 part time job in 2023

but if your a student claiming expenses or a parent claiming a dependent 78 dollars in charges to file.

so much for if your taxes are simple no charge , more like if your taxes shouldn't even need to be filed because you claim nothing then it is free.

this seems like turbo tax is way to in bed with the IRS

any how printing out forms and filing paper this weekend.

I've E-filed for years and I understand what might go wrong, but it's not likely to turn my life upside down. I have one W-2 and a few investment accounts that I did not sell any of, so should be very simple. Ironically, the one year I had a tax accountant do my taxes, he missed a W-2 and I underpaid about $6,000 in taxes. That was a nice bill, along with the penalty. The tax accountant was not responsible for any of it. Regardless of who does your taxes, you are the only turnip squeezed if there is an error.

I also found that going through IRS.gov website to pick the "free-file" provider is quite helpful for navigating the labyrinth of crap for free filing.

Turbo has been free the past two years for me. Already filed and got my dinky refund back day before yesterday.

What is this “ refund” thou speaketh of?

Osky

I've e-filed 20+ years and haven't had any trouble knock on wood. I use Turbo.tax. They ask you questions and double confirmation who you are with secret pins and passwords and such. When you click submit it says it was sent and that you should get a confirmation email in a few days. You usually get it in hours or like the next day but you know to look for it. Right before you submit and you let it check over your things it gives you a graph of your audit risk. You can go back in and adjust things and let it tell you your new audit risk and go back and forth if you need to. Also you can buy audit protection and then should you be audited they will represent you.

The letter I received from the IRS wasn't about Turbo Tax or any of the other private filing services available. It was about the government run Free File program. That is what the WSJ article White linked is about as well.

I am assuming the post was about individuals doing their own taxes using various and different tax programs. For those that have professional firms do their taxes many of these firms are required to e-file the tax returns when they exceed certain numbers of returns and that can vary depending upon the type of return filed. When I closed my small filing business I would have had to e-file all the returns if I exceeded 10. I had done all of my clients via paper prior to this. I did have a few that wanted to work with me, but I decided to close down totally.l Personally we have e-filed now for over a decade.

Bryce