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0 pointsPaulDavisThe1st2y ago0 comments

FreeFillableForms (.com) is 100% free, has no income limits, has every IRS schedule & form.

It's basically backed by the IRS and implemented by Intuit et al, but appears independent.

It works a little better every year, but you do still have to manually carry over some numbers from form to form.

I've been using it for the last 8 years at least. I don't love it to death, but if it wasn't available I'd do my own paper forms anyway.

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resoluteteeth2y ago

FreeFillableForms is basically like doing the paper forms by hand and it's much easier to make a mistake than using something like turbotax. I've used both that and the excel files at https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home in the past but I realized that the hassle if I screwed something up was much worse than paying for tax prep software.

I'm very glad that the IRS is going to be making something that's more comparable to turbotax now.

extraduder_ire2y ago

I think the URL is freefilefillableforms.com (note the "file", the "FreeFillableForms" domain is parked by someone) based on some light googling and a contact email I saw on the irs.gov site.

Glad a digital equivalent to paper forms exists, the US tax code is far less hellish than I previously believed.

singron2y ago

The actual tax code is still hellish. Physically filling out the forms is the easiest part. Figuring out what to put in the forms is all the effort. Each page of form usually has many pages of instructions, which are long and complicated because the tax code is long and complicated.

If you are a typical tech employee and have highish income, incentive stock options, interest, dividends, capital gains, etc. don't think you can use freefillableforms to do your taxes in a couple hours.

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