• DolphinMath@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    If your taxes are simple enough for the free version that’s great! Promising free is 100% a way that they get you in the door and upsell you though.

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      1 year ago

      Yep, there actually is a free version that’s truly free for some people (Free File), but the company behind TurboTax actively hid it. They instead heavily marketed another version of TurboTax (Free Edition) as “free, free, free!”, only to tell people who were already halfway through filing that their taxes were “too complicated” and required large payments after all. Horrible tactics and they were fined for it.

    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s likely different for Canadians than Americans though.

      Right on the website for the CRA it has a list of free tax software.

      I have a buisness and claim taxes common law. I have never had to pay.