I do mine using pdf’s and mail it in. All fifty pages.

AP is most certainly lying.

AP

Anything to Promote a narrative that Trump is bad. There are many ways to file taxes for free, adding another program is just a waste of tax money.

Also given it is as usual two “sources” I am inclined to consider this story to be made up for the purpose to hurt Trump.

I did that in 2021. pdf’s printed and mailed in. That was the year there were trailers full of returns the ‘covid’ prevented IRS from porcessing. Burnt, lost or whatever.

Never filed since. Retired on SS.

Nobody knocking on my door.

We should have a national sales tax. 23% with exemptions for groceries.

Cons - it'll encourage activity in the black market to evade the sales tax.

I tried to file with a ‘free’ commercial service.

None would allow me to do it for free. I wasted a lot of time.

Given how much the IRS has taken from me, it should allow me to hand it over without me getting bilked.

Put some ‘service’ in the Internal Revenue Service.

No company should feel entitled to profit off a government mandate.

Funny, I have been filing taxes electronically for at least a decade now. Although it was purchasable software before.

I use a tax preparer now simply because I know a guy and its way easier to do it through him in 30 minutes through his file programs.

Never filed since. Retired on SS. Nobody knocking on my door.

You probably don't owe any taxes anyway, but why give the feral government an opening to come after you?

One thing to note is some of the $1400 covid checks were kept from us simply because they lost our return.

A general rule: Government software sucks.

Random taxpayer: Hey government, I need credentials to file online. Government: Um, we'll send you the credentials to file online but it will take "21 days" for you to get them in the U.S. mail. Taxpayer: But there's only 18 days before the tax filing deadline. Government: Ok, then you can instantly get your credentials online enabling you to file before the filing deadline! Taxpayer: Great, tell me how. Government: You have to log on to our site but in order to do that, we'll need to first violate your privacy and you'll have to give us all kinds of additional personal data about yourself that you won't want to give us and there's no guarantee that all that extra personal data you give us won't end up in the hands of hackers who steal all that additional personal information you give us that actually ends up on a third-party server run by some corporation. Taxpayer: F u, I'll send my return in the U.S. mail.

Conclusion: Biden's handlers were idiots.

Back in 2021 and 2022 I couldn’t figure out a way to see what happened to that return. I wasn’t about to pay a service to research what happened. In the past I never would learn if my return was processed in 2019 or earlier.

Yes — I sleep at night.

Did you owe taxes or get a refund that year?

Did the refund show up or the check get cashed?

Its been net zero for years.

Then you are correct in assuming you have nothing to worry about.

I just don’t trust the feral government. Trump won’t be there forever. Who knows what comes next?

I’m not understanding why anyone would want to file an electronic tax return. That seems like just another way for Big Brother to instantly check and cross-check you.

I’ll stick with sending in my returns by carrier pigeon.

"I do mine using pdf’s and mail it in. All fifty pages."

I've never done my taxes online. I've always printed out the form, and sent it in. Thankfully, I only have to fill out two pages, and not 50.

Free filing programs are not hard to use. most are pretty easy.
I use FreeTax USA, what is not free is the filing for state returns and of course they make money with add ons like audit protection, Etc.
Still cheaper than dealing with traditional guys if your return is easy to do.
The software today is really good and not hard to use.

The best way to stifle the black market is to LOWER OUR TAXES and kill the incentive to use the black market to evade them