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[–] cccrontab@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck all corpo scum! Intuit, TurboTax and H&R Block can all fuck right off! Corporate lobbying motherfuckers can burn in hell.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I filed for free with H&R Block.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

after h&r block wrecked my taxes and cost me months of back and forth with the IRS, i take every possible opportunity to steer people away from them

i sat there and had to repeatedly correct the ancient walking corpse they hired part time to do tax filing as she kept entering wrong numbers on the computer. who knows wtf they did after i left

fuck h&r block. after that bullshit experience, i signed on with an actual business accountant and never had a single fuckup in 10+ years

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

...And Now you can file for free without them

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And your financial information need never leave the IRS and be put in the hands of a private company.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

a private company would never sell this data

[–] cccrontab@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah but now H&R has all your financial information. It's "free" but that doesn't mean there is no cost.

[–] schwim@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] lung@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Old meme, but (1) you don't go to prison for making a mistake on your taxes in America — you have to do a big fraud (2) no, the government doesn't always know how much you owe, they only know stuff like domestic W2s and what banks file. There is a huge amount of ways to make income outside of that

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I’m guessing 50% of individuals would be covered by just those 2 methods. Other methods would quickly follow once people realize how the rest of the world does not cater to crazy and the ones they can legally bribe (“lobby”).

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I remember people saying that Lemmy was going to be better than Reddit, yet here we are, with idiotic memes sharing blatant falsehoods that pander to people who can't be bothered to think critically or actually learn anything. Upvoted straight to the top, not least of which because it's an image.

I miss old Reddit when, if people were going to say stupid shit, they actually had to take the time to type it.

Better vehicle, same people. 🤷🙂

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I don't like you.

Reddit has been the same since day one. You're just being dramatic. They had plenty of stupid and off the wall shit that went just as this has. You're being ridiculous old timer.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What's the blatant falsehood? You are required to calculate taxes that the government largely already knows the answer. If you calculate wrong, you get a letter from the Government telling you where you were wrong which proves they knew the correct answers all along. If you don't pay that fine, the end result will be prison.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

TurboTax for bankruptcy, LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!

[–] Zier@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Vote more Democrats into Congress

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If a bullet proof dem super majority state like California wont do it, they sure as fuck wont do it on a national level

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kind of a chicken or the egg thing, state level reforms can only do so much

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

3 times universal healthcare has come up in the state legislature and their own party killed it

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Using this ended being a massive pain in the ass for me. I could file the federal taxes online, but after I submitted it and attempted to file my state taxes online it said I couldn't since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k/yr and I'd have to mail them in since it's impossible to file only your state taxes online due to the IRS' requirements.

I haven't used my printer in years so it was a hassle just to print out 5 pages and mail them half way across the country. It also delayed getting my refund by about a month.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a state problem. It works great in my state. It will get better in time.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A city problem to be more exact. Since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k in a year I couldn't file online, using the site the IRS directed me to (I've been doing it myself with TurboTax for the past 7 years, and paying for it). Due to the IRS' own rules, you can't file just your state tax returns online, since they're largely the same as the federal taxes. So both are actually at fault.

I live in Florida now so I don't have to pay state taxes, so next year's will be a breeze.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 0 points 5 months ago

you can't file just your state tax returns online

Then either I’m misunderstanding you, or I’m filing my taxes wrong lol

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

This is HORRIBLE! I absolutely can NOT stand ANYTHING that makes Biden look good!

-Republicans who care about the Economy and the Country.