{"id":14356,"date":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/tax-season-is-upon-us\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T02:41:00","slug":"tax-season-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/tax-season-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Season Is Upon Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s time to face the annual decision of how to get the taxes done. Paper forms? Buy preparation software from CompUSA? Hire somebody? Thanks to a timely <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/01\/05\/2042257&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=185&amp;tid=98&amp;tid=99\" target=\"_blank\">discussion on Slashdot<\/a>, I discovered a nice little web-based service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TaxACT<\/a> that seems to be comparable to Turbo Tax and the like, but doesn&rsquo;t require any software installation. Its cost is also very reasonable, with a tiered pricing model. I spent about $18 total for the deluxe version of the service plus electronic filing of my state return. The deluxe version includes federal electronic filing, an accuracy guarantee, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxact.com\/products\/all_compare.asp?s=ULT\" target=\"_blank\">several other features<\/a>. If you don&rsquo;t care about E-File and all that, they also have a free service. If you choose to use the same service next year, it will remember your data, and they seem to have a pretty solid privacy and confidentiality guarantee. It gave me PDF copies of all relevant paperwork to print for my records. My taxes this year were fairly simple, but I was pretty happy with the overall experience. Just thought y&#8217;all might want to check it out before you plunk down the $$ and deal with the hassle of installing Turbo Tax. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107577606244399195?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s time to face the annual decision of how to get the taxes done. Paper forms? Buy preparation software from CompUSA? Hire somebody? Thanks to a timely discussion on Slashdot, I discovered a nice little web-based service called TaxACT that seems to be comparable to Turbo Tax and the like, but doesn&rsquo;t require any software &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/03\/tax-season-is-upon-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tax Season Is Upon Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}