Free File your 2009 Federal 1040 tax today, and get your refund as soon as possible, maybe in about 8 days. The Free File system is a great opportunity to have access to top rated online tax preparation software and in many cases it won’t cost you a dime. If you have a complex tax [...]
Category Archives: File Tax Return Online For Free
Common Tax Preparation Mistakes You Need To Avoid
February 2, 2010 – 9:19 am
One of the best ways to avoid getting audited is to not make a tax preparation mistake, especially not a dumb mistake. It helps if you collect all tax information in one file, box or whatever as the year goes on; then you have it when tax time rolls around. Here are some common mistakes [...]
IRS Says Average Refund Should Be Up This Year – To $2800
January 25, 2010 – 9:36 am
Good news from the IRS, and that happens seldom enough I thought it was worth mentioning. The IRS says the average refund doled out to taxpayers this year for 2009 tax filing will be up from last year; in the range of about $2800 each. That is as good a reason as ever to take [...]
TurboTax Federal Free Edition Easy Interview Process
February 18, 2009 – 2:22 pm
File for Free with TurboTax Federal Free Edition’s interview process is incredibly easy to do. I was just going through a tax return this morning with TurboTax Online Edition and was just amazed at how smooth the software operated; how quick and responsive it was. It starts out by establishing a secure connection over the [...]
American Century Investments Downloads Tax Information To TurboTax
February 18, 2009 – 2:16 pm
Today I was reminded of another indication of the acknowledged leadership of Intuit TurboTax in the income tax preparation software business when I saw that American Century Investments will offer to provide your mutual fund and investment tax information in a format you can download into TurboTax. Being able to download data into TurboTax provides [...]
Doing My Taxes Online With TurboTax Federal Free Edition
February 17, 2009 – 9:08 am
Back in 1990 I had to make a decision about doing my taxes. The year before the accountant who had charged me a couple hundred dollars to do my tax preparation for me had treated the exact same investment differently on my tax return than he did on my brothers return. That mistake cost me [...]
How Can I File Federal Income Taxes For Free?
February 11, 2009 – 6:35 pm
The U.S. Government Internal Revenue Service offers a program known as “freefile”. This program provides free federal income tax preparation and efiling (electronic filing) for certain taxpayers. There are some limits and stipulations that apply. Does the IRS provide this service themselves? No. Quite frankly that would likely be a disaster. The IRS has partnered [...]
FileForFreeOnline is Online
February 11, 2009 – 5:19 pm
The 2008 income tax season is upon us. Our job here is to make doing your taxes as little “taxing” as possible. The trend toward preparing, printing, and efiling your tax return online has really taken hold. With the ability for some taxpayers to efile their federal tax return for free online the software companies [...]