Free Federal Tax Filing Software
Free H&R Block TaxCut Software – Federal Only. No credit card necessary. Optional State is $25. Optional E-file is $15. Be sure to disable the lame ‘Download Protection’. Looks like you can even get Microsoft Money 2006 Standard for free after a $30 mail-in rebate.
Free TaxACT Software – Federal only. Free E-File included. Optional State software is $13.
For those with AGIs of less than $50,000, wait until 1/18 and see the IRS’s list of free filing options.
By Jonathan Ping | Deals & Offers, Taxes | 1/16/06, 9:18pm
January 16th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
wow, finally getting something free for being poor, although i wouldn’t mind making more than 50k =P
January 17th, 2006 at 6:30 am
Free is sounding pretty good to me right now, thanks!
January 17th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Also, it’s worth noting that Vanguard customers get a deal on various versions of TurboTax.
Flagship users get the best deal (free for “Basic” software, $9.95 for “Premier”), but it’s also not a bad deal for “Other Clients” like myself ($9.95 Basic, $19.95 for Premier.)
January 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Thanks Dan – I wish they had a discount on State for us ‘other clients’, it’s still $24.95.
January 17th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
OK, not trying to beat a dead horse here, but before signing up with Vanguard’s Turbo Tax offer I checked Amazon. If you happen to be in the market for Quicken, you apparently can buy any flavor of Quicken and any flavor of Turbotax together and get $30 rebate.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....34-6695953
Depending on the software versions you select, this could be pretty much like buying Quicken and then getting “TurboTax Total… with State” for $4.95. Most people on this blog probably have personal finance software already, but for any newbies like me this deal might be appealing. (Although I did notice the state tax software did get some bad reviews from Amazon users.)
January 17th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
does anyone have any idea of which tax software is best for espp (employee stock purchase plan) sales?
January 17th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Sadly these offers are Windows only. We mac users either need to do our taxes online or TurboTax (or by hand, obviously). I’m glad you posted the TaxACT link though, thanks!
January 18th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Caitlin,
I’m a Mac-user too, and neither the Vanguard (online TurboTax software) offer nor the Amazon (Mac or PC) offer excludes us!
However, after reading the numerous reviews saying how Quicken’s product for the Mac is so horrible compared to the PC version, I’m probably not going to do that offer…
Any recommendations for personal finance software for the Mac?
February 9th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Best personal finance software for the Mac IMO is iBank, available at http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/index.html.
The only feature I can think of from Quicken that it does not support is direct connect from banks. However, it does read downloaded Quicken files, which can be imported into accounts,
iBank also has many better features, such as smart import rules (for making ugly transactions downloaded from banks nice), very Mac-like, sub-groups for accounts, etc. Give it a try!
March 1st, 2006 at 11:10 am
If you want to get both Federal and State taxes for free visit Turbo tax website: http://www.statetaxfreedom. This site offers both taxes for free if you income is less than $35,000.
I’ve got my taxes back in 10-days. Great resource. Everyone should try and see if they qualify.
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