EZ kept sending my e-mails that time was running out. I'd used them before. So, I decided to do the free filing. My situation is not very complicated (I make about $17K and about $15K form SocSec, plus a few hundred in interest; one of my employers is out-of-country and one sent a 1099NEC tax statement), but the "half hour" turned into 1.5 hours, and the "free"wound up costing almost $50! Maybe this was because I had them do the state tax as well. If so, this was not clearly indicated that this is where this fee came from. I only found out about the fee at the end of my 1.5 hrs on the last filing day, so I pretty much had to accept it. Some of the terminology was unclear, so I had to guess categories -- and sometimes go back when later material indicated that I had entered data in the wrong category. The company has an online help service that responds within 24 hours (I got an answer after 6-12 hours), but the answer did not directly address my simple question (which was asking what "previous year"or "last year" meant. The software had some minor glitches (in correcting, I was unable to change one item in a category, so I had to erase everything in that category and re-enter everything but the one item that was wrong because I had given the wrong answer because of the ambiguous wording). The software does do a lot of checking, i.e., it asks you to look at what is being submitted to give you the chance to check your work. The software also does a lot of clclulating a lot of äutomatic"stuff that would be tedious to do by hand.
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