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Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software?

Posted by timothy on from the enclose-a-stinkbug-with-each-envelope dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I finally started looking at my taxes and instead of handing over my personal information and money to TurboTax I was wondering if there were any recommendations for freely available/open source tax software? Ideally, the data would be stored in a portable, open format. I wouldn't really need a GUI, but something that filled out PDF forms would be nice." It's a question that just won't go away. Open source solution or not, if you're a U.S. taxpayer, the deadline for filing is nearly to hand.

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  1. Re:For this you want a professional product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It didn't take long for that 18 year old coder to respond.

  2. Re:For this you want a professional product by HapSlappy_2222 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have some investments that, due to their particular details, have stumped multiple tax preparers.

    They never tell you this part of being a drug runner, do they? No, it's all "see the world" and "make people happy!". Sigh.