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0 pointsaorth4y ago0 comments

> Edit to add: When CreditKarma gave up on me, I tried FreeTaxUsa. It sounds like a scam I know, but they are top notch, and cheap. Highly recommend.

Ah! I remember FreeTaxUsa. They have this silly verification thing in their signup. Your email address must be on an "American" domain. Mine is self hosted on some other domain and they literally say it's "foreign". Just checked again and it's still there. Hah... sigh.

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mro_name4y ago· 2 in thread

did you contact them on that? What does an email prove anyway?

aorthOP4y ago

Ah, I just checked my records. I contacted them in 2021-02. Their response was:

> We prefer customers to attach email addresses from widely recognized providers for security purposes. Additionally, our servers have a hard time communicating with private email servers.

> You may create a new email address to handle your tax returns through FreeTaxUSA with a major provider.

mro_name4y ago

thanks for asking them – it's really important to give feedback. Otherwise they just continue to not know.

londons_explore4y ago

If getting an email address is too big a barrier for you... you might not be the target market.

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