[ale] State & Federal tax filing on Linux

[Neal Rhodes]

If my memory serves, the last time we encountered a bug in standard TTax
which was only correct in the premiumplatinumintergalactic version was
the handling of HSA accounts. 

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 17:03 -0500, Horkan Smith wrote:

> FWIW, I've always used Premier (Rental and S-corp support), even on turbotax.com.  I switched from the CD version 4 or 5 years ago - I did it on both platforms then and the experience and results were effectively identical.
> 
> YMMV, of course....
> 
> later!
>    horkan
> 
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:49:40PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > Major consideration is the complexity of your return.  Rental income,
> > corporations, funds, loss carryover from prior years, etc. 
> > 
> > One can quickly outstrip the capability of the online and basic turbotax
> > versions.    For us we always have to get the premium/intergalactic
> > version because it sucks investment data out of sources which would take
> > days to key in.   And the basic version doesn't back out all the stuff
> > correctly for state taxes. 
> > 
> > Given any significant complexity I'd bag the philosophical aversion to
> > turbotax on a pc. 
> > 
> > Neal Rhodes
> > MNOP Ltd. 
> > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:52 -0500, Edward Holcroft wrote:
> > > Last year my wife filed ours with Turbotax online using Ubuntu and
> > > Chrome. No issues. You're able to download a local copy of the filing.
> > > Haven't filed this year yet, but since my wife is an accountant,
> > > she'll be doing ours this year as usual.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ed
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Scott Castaline
> > > <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >         It's been a few years since I've done our taxes myself. Last
> > >         time was using TurboTax on Mafia$haft. I'd like a Linux only
> > >         solution, that would allow me to keep a copy of my forms on my
> > >         system and eFile for me both Fed & State. Looking for personal
> > >         recommendations. Everything I'm finding so far is dated no
> > >         more recent than 2009 so I don't think that would be viable
> > >         solutions. Also I keep hearing that there were major changes
> > >         in tax laws this year so the media is recommending not to do
> > >         taxes yourself this year. Any opinions on that?
> > >         
> > >         Scott C.
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