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IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a state problem. It works great in my state. It will get better in time.

[–] pete_the_cat 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A city problem to be more exact. Since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k in a year I couldn't file online, using the site the IRS directed me to (I've been doing it myself with TurboTax for the past 7 years, and paying for it). Due to the IRS' own rules, you can't file just your state tax returns online, since they're largely the same as the federal taxes. So both are actually at fault.

I live in Florida now so I don't have to pay state taxes, so next year's will be a breeze.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you can't file just your state tax returns online

Then either I’m misunderstanding you, or I’m filing my taxes wrong lol

[–] pete_the_cat 1 points 4 months ago

This is a month late, but what I meant was there is no way to do them completely separately since the state largely uses your federal return. When you submit your state taxes it checks to see if your federal return was already accepted (usually at that point you haven't actually submitted your federal taxes, or at least the IRS hasn't entered them in as submitted), if it shows as being accepted already their system is set up in a way that won't allow a second submission online.