# Who's ever done their income taxes online?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-ever-done-their-income-taxes-online/289946>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-ever-done-their-income-taxes-online/289946 "2005-02-14T01:33:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-ever-done-their-income-taxes-online/289946/21 "2005-02-16T11:48:54Z")

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I’ve used TaxAct too the past two years and it was awesome, very simple. I got a big return one year and it was in my bank account in like 10 days.

Didn’t pay anything that I remember.

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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-ever-done-their-income-taxes-online/289946/22 "2005-02-16T13:19:59Z")

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I eFiled yesterday, it was pretty easy, though there were a couple of things I didn’t like. In order to everything online you had to have last years numbers, something I didn’t have at work and something it didn’t tell me I needed until the very end. They also tried to be sneaky and had the option of giving you a “loan” until your refund came back, something that would have cost $50. I didn’t get it at first because there was only two options, the loan and having them send you a check in the mail that cost $10+ a fee. I had to read the fine print saying that you didn’t have to choose either, but they should have said that up front.

I did pay $10 for my Maryland taxes, but since it was already done I just did it. I am glad though as I did my taxes by hand first, then found out I made a brain fart and put down the wrong amount owed, a number that didn’t even show up in the tax bracket so I was off by $100.

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**Author:** ![AsecretK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@AsecretK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AsecretK)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-ever-done-their-income-taxes-online/289946/23 "2005-02-16T13:31:54Z")

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I used tax act also. I live in Ohio. I filed both state and federal for $7.95 on January 24th and received my federal refund via direct deposit on Februay 4th.

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