Bob Meighan, vice president of customer advocacy for TurboTax, responds that it is not the company’s responsibility to market the Free File Alliance product. 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).Īnyway, the non-Free File Alliance version is what I found myself using through the TurboTax website. Turns out the Freedom Edition (the one that is part of the Free File program) supports a wider array of free tax forms. Now here's the key point, one I didn't realize last year: the TurboTax Federal Free Edition isn't actually part of the Free File program, whereas the TurboTax Freedom Edition is. (The cut off this year is $62,000 in 2015 adjusted gross income.) 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 companies, Intuit included, launched a nonprofit in 2003 under threat of free tax preparation by the IRS. This was because of something called The Free File Alliance, which is comprised of 13 tax software companies. 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. I have no investments outside of my 401(k) and my apartment is a rental.īut the most important thing to know for this story is that my 2014 income was less than $60,000. 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 W-2 and provides me with access to health insurance. A few basics should tell you I’m a fairly standard Millennial taxpayer.
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