[geeks] tax software rant

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> Date: 2007/04/17 Tue PM 01:57:11 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] tax software rant
> 
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> Tue, 17 Apr 2007 @ 13:10 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
>>>
>>>> I don't use online tax-prep sites.  I don't trust them with my financial
>>>> data.
>>> So, you trust the government with it?  
>>>
>>> :-)
>> Well, I don't have a choice about *that*.
> 
> You don't have to give accurate info, you know...

Well, yes, I rather do have to, actually.  And so do you.  Falsifying a
tax return is a Federal offense.

> IIRC, the IRS used to offer "electronic" forms - PDFs with enterable fields... Do they still offer them?

They still do.

I buy tax software on a CD, prepare my return on my computer behind my
firewall (the software vendor never seeing the data), and submit my
return to the IRS as the law requires, either electronically or by mail.
 I don't do my taxes online.


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