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Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software?

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-to-win-the-audit-lottery dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TurboTax from Intuit and H&R Block's own tax package have been perennial mainstays for U.S. citizens trying to use software to figure out just how much they owe the country, without reading the tens of thousands of pages of IRS forms guidance. With tax season just around the corner, the new online platforms from both providers raise an interesting question: can you trust your return information any more or less to an online platform than you do to the equivalent software on your computer?"

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  1. Re:I Used a Popular Online Tax Service... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah. I used to do my taxes myself by hand. But my calculator (from a brand you know...) kept giving the wrong numbers, so much so that I way underpaid my taxes and was hit years later with a $7000 fine from the government, plus interest on my unpaid taxes!

    I'm done with calculators. It's back to pencil and paper (someone else's pencil and paper, hee, hee...). The first time I tried this, I realized that I did have to pay taxes, and I had no fines at all! That alone pays for years of pencils and quite a lot of paper (someone else's, of course!)