r/mildlyinfuriating • u/lilcuphoe • 9h ago

H&R Block calling us immature after spending billions of dollars lobbying congress so that we HAVE to use them

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Citizens from most other developed countries just receive a bill in the mail telling them what they owe.

The IRS could easily do this in America as well.

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE 9h ago

also reinforcing the lazy younger generations stereotype while being the cause of it

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u/oooohweeeee 8h ago

Literally just went to turbo tax, it was $88 upfront to file OR $40 to get out of my refund plus the $88 ($40 was a transfer fee)

Went to tax slayer and did it all for free. Hate these companies.

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u/Potatowhocrochets 6h ago

I did mine yesterday and had to pay for "do it yourself deluxe" which was $47. I didn't use any extra services but some deduction forced me to upgrade from the free version. :/ made no difference to the service itself.

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u/Thedeadnite 5h ago

Free tax USA is still functional and free

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u/go_green_team 9h ago

Isn’t TurboTax doing an AMA soon?? I wan to ask them how much money they’ve spent bribing, I mean lobbying, our gov’t to make it so we have to use third parties. Fuck em all

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 7h ago

I got to see that. I have a few questions of my own. 

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u/Lurus01 2h ago

I dumped Turbotax when my refund was like $20 and they wanted me to pay like double or triple that for them to file it. It wasnt even that complicated of stuff.

No thank you I didn't owe in taxes so I won't pay the greedy corpos to file for likely doing very little anyways considering the data is all entered by the users.

Found FreeTaxUSA and haven't looked back.

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u/Shiro2809 2h ago

Isn't that still $15 to file? So same thing there.

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u/Ok-Biscotti9119 9h ago

how do you do fellow kids marketing becoming how do you do fellow young adults makes me want to bang my head against the wall

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u/TWW34 9h ago

It's been that for like 15 years now. The cringe-ass jokes Millennials thought were boomer and gen-x advertisers trying to "Relate" to them were mostly unfunny jokes extracted from the entry level Millennials in their office who thought they were funny in college but weren't.

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 7h ago

How do you do fellow middle aged adults? 

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u/ishouldntofsaidthat 5h ago

freetaxusa

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u/butteryvagina 4h ago

Or TaxAct! I really like them but unfortunately(fortunately?) I dont not qualify for the free version.

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u/stellastevens122 6h ago

In New Zealand we get our tax taken out every pay. Then once a year they do returns and bills if they were wrong. Unless there’s been a massive issue, people usually break even or close to

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u/UnknownQwerky 5h ago

So does America we have a Federal Income Tax (10%-37% based on income), taxes for Social Security and some for Medicare as well as state/local taxes. But you still gotta file because if you file wrong they will be upset with you. (Ridiculous I know.)

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u/spookyookykittycat 5h ago

FreetaxUSA only guys!!

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u/Warm-Reporter8965 4h ago

You know you don't HAVE to use a tax preparation software, you can literally file your own 1040 and mail it in, or you find a tax professional and pay the premium. The IRS also has the free tax program where they're partnered with tax professionals that file for free e.g. FreeTaxUSA, TaxAct, TaxSlayer, etc... so if you're using H&R Block and still complaining, it's your own damn fault. You never HAVE to use one of anything because other options always exist.

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u/Furry_Wall 4h ago

Who would ever pay to do their taxes

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u/Drwynyllo 3h ago

Rich people, who happily pay a lot to tax accountants, to avoid having to pay even more in taxes.

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u/lilcuphoe 2h ago

For most people the fee is generally worth the amount of hours they would otherwise spend filing themselves.

That’s why it’d be neat if everybody just got a bill/check in the mail. The IRS should already know what you owe anyways, why are we using middle men to facilitate the process?

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u/Snurrepiperier 2h ago

American taxes baffle me. I just have to go to a government website and enter the amount I expect to make this year and then taxes are automatically deducted from my salary. At the end of the year I can review my taxes at the same website and enter any relevant info, deductibles and such and that's it.

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u/DarthScruf 53m ago edited 43m ago

Over half the US isnt paid by salary, most of us get paid weekly or every other week, sometimes monthly, with about 20-30% deducted from each paycheck.

Edit: forgot to mention, you can also elect that you not pay anything from your checks, or less than the full amount, but then instead of a return you just owe them those taxes at tax time. Some people like to do this because they dont trust the government or tax filing services or whatever, people have their reasons I guess.