File 2016 Tax Return Turbotax
File 2016 Tax Return With Turbotax
If you received an audit letter based on your personal 2016 TurboTax return and are not satisfied with how TurboTax responded to your inquiry, TurboTax will refund you the applicable TurboTax federal 1040 and/or state purchase price you paid.
File 2016 Tax Return Turbotax
(Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TurboTax) This is a story about taxes. Not just any taxes, my taxes. (If you pay attention to politics you know that “my taxes” tend to be the only kind people care about.) More precisely, this is a story about why, despite technically qualifying for free filing, it cost me $118.64 to file my 2014 tax return with Intuit’s TurboTax in 2015. It is also a story of how the same thing could easily happen to you. A few basics should tell you I’m a fairly standard Millennial taxpayer. I’m not married and I have no children. I do have student loans.
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My living comes from one job at a company (Forbes Media) that counts me as an employee and thus reports my wages to the Internal Revenue Service on a and provides me with access to health insurance. I have no investments outside of my 401(k) and my apartment is a rental. But the most important thing to know for this story is that my 2014 income was less than $60,000. That detail and my plain vanilla finances seemed, as far as I understood things, to easily qualify me to e-file my federal return for free. This was because of something called The Free File Alliance, which is comprised of 13 tax software companies.
The companies, Intuit included, launched a nonprofit in 2003 under threat of free tax preparation by the IRS. They agreed to provide free filing for low- and moderate-income taxpayers, but maintained the right to each set eligibility criteria around an income threshold. (The cut off this year is $62,000 in 2015 adjusted gross income.) Armed with this knowledge, my W-2 and a Form 1098-E to claim the I typed TurboTax.com into my browser and clicked Federal Free Edition. I decided to file with industry-hulk TurboTax because the software is known for being easy to use and Intuit had just introduced TurboTax Absolute Zero, which touts free state filing (albeit with an *.) Plus, my basic information was already stored in TurboTax from when I tested it for a the previous year. WATCH: How to choose what preparer to use this tax season.
What was not evident is that TurboTax actually has two free products with distinct eligibility criteria. There is the Federal Free Edition, which is available through the company website and is the top result if you search for “TurboTax free file” on Google. There is also TurboTax Freedom Edition, which can be accessed through a nesting doll-like set of links from an or by clicking. It is not listed among TurboTax’s. Now here’s the key point, one I didn’t realize last year: the TurboTax Federal Free Edition isn’t actually part of the program, whereas the TurboTax Freedom Edition is. Turns out the Freedom Edition (the one that is part of the Free File program) supports a wider array of free tax forms. Moreover, Intuit is barred from selling other services such as audit protection within the Freedom Edition (the company sees this as a weakness–you decide).