U.S. citizens: How are you filing your taxes?

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calher

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Iscritto: 06/19/2015

How are you filing your taxes this year?

Vote on Mastodon:
https://polyglot.city/@kolev/109797445010831741

IMHO, doing taxes on paper in the U.S. is not very feasible. The Government itself seems to pressure people to use proprietary web programs and highly discourages doing it on paper.

Do you know a simple way of doing U.S. taxes?

What about accounting for tax-exempt donations?

eric23
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Iscritto: 06/30/2017

> Do you know a simple way of doing U.S. taxes?

I go through an accountant who does my taxes for me. Like one at H&R Block. I do not use their software, I just hand them my paperwork and sign using their electronic pad.

There is a problem with online services:

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook

I just wonder if they are sending my info to Facebook even though I do not use their software. I make too many mistakes doing my own taxes that I rather not do that paper option. I took tax classes in college and it did not work out.

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

Filling out my 1040EZ with my single W-2 and mailing it in is pretty straightforward.

andyprough
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Iscritto: 02/12/2015

Yes, filling them out on paper is no problem. I fill them out on the computer and print and sign them and mail them in normally.

I thought you were Canadian @jxself.

jxself
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Iscritto: 09/13/2010

I'm close to Canada and have been there very briefly because the maintainer of libreCMC wanted to leave the US for coffee at Tim Hortons for an hour. There's a whole story there about the border people not believing that we only wanted to enter Canada for an hour to have coffee at Tim Hortons. But that's probably for a different thread.

prospero
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Iscritto: 05/20/2022

I thought you were Mexican @andyprough.

Or Swiss. Is there not a whole story about the border people at Konstanz not believing that you only wanted to enter Germany for an hour to have a beer at Brauhaus Albrecht? With Tim Berners-Lee of Proton?