Friday, January 30, 2009

Free Online Tax Filing

Jacob finished our taxes yesterday--state and federal--in about an hour! We used the TurboTax Freedom Edition, which offers free tax filing to those that qualify in one of three ways:

1) 2008 income is less than $30,000
2) Active duty military
3) Qualify for the Earned Income Credit

Federal tax filing is free, and twenty-one different states allow free state filing through TurboTax as well. The process was incredibly simple; I was amazed at how quickly we were finished!

You can find the TurboTax Freedom Edition here.

6 comments:

Jacob said...

It is actually 21 states.
And yes it was easy.

Laura-IH said...

Yikes! Taxes scare me! People keep telling me I can do it, but I don't believe them.

BTW, I tagged you again on my blog! ; )

Our family... said...

Heather, Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for mentioning that. I was so scared about doing taxes, but I knew I wanted to do them before we left the country (Feb 8). Because you said it was so easy, I sat down and did my taxes and was thrilled not only with the result, but also with our return! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Love,
Lorina

Heather said...

Jacob-thank you, love. I updated the number of states.

Lorina-I'm so glad it worked so well for you! I'll be keeping posted with you guys and your adventures on your blog. :)

Mrs. Jo said...

You're a lifesaver! I need to get taxes done soon, as well as filling out about 50,000 other pages related to medical stuff...

Jujita said...

Thank you thank you! I think I'll send this link to my hubby so he can do ours for free.