[ale] State & Federal tax filing on Linux

[Neal Rhodes]

Major consideration is the complexity of your return.  Rental income,
corporations, funds, loss carryover from prior years, etc. 

One can quickly outstrip the capability of the online and basic turbotax
versions.    For us we always have to get the premium/intergalactic
version because it sucks investment data out of sources which would take
days to key in.   And the basic version doesn't back out all the stuff
correctly for state taxes. 

Given any significant complexity I'd bag the philosophical aversion to
turbotax on a pc. 

Neal Rhodes
MNOP Ltd. 
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:52 -0500, Edward Holcroft wrote:
> Last year my wife filed ours with Turbotax online using Ubuntu and
> Chrome. No issues. You're able to download a local copy of the filing.
> Haven't filed this year yet, but since my wife is an accountant,
> she'll be doing ours this year as usual.
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> ed
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> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Scott Castaline
> <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         It's been a few years since I've done our taxes myself. Last
>         time was using TurboTax on Mafia$haft. I'd like a Linux only
>         solution, that would allow me to keep a copy of my forms on my
>         system and eFile for me both Fed & State. Looking for personal
>         recommendations. Everything I'm finding so far is dated no
>         more recent than 2009 so I don't think that would be viable
>         solutions. Also I keep hearing that there were major changes
>         in tax laws this year so the media is recommending not to do
>         taxes yourself this year. Any opinions on that?
>         
>         Scott C.
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