Frugal Benefits of Filing Your Taxes Online

Filing your taxes on line puts your financial data on the internet and wants it is on the internet it is always on the internet. I mail in my tax returns.

People who do not understand taxes should not "Go it Alone". You don't cut your own hair. Don't do your own taxes.

We use Turbo Tax and file online, if a refund is coming We use the direct deposit. It is all quick and easy and have been doing so for many years. Not a single problem in all that time.

THe one thing that filing taxes ion-line is that IT IS NOT EASY..YOu have to do the same amount of work to organize your return. In addition, Turbo Tax splits stuff like medical deductions an charitable deductions in strange ways. Also they try to sneak simple returns like Pa State income taxes into their program and charge an additional $19,99 or so to do it, instead of just printing out a couple of simple forms..or the turbo tax forms and mailing them in..Just be careful..They continually try to upgrade your on-line tax programs and charge you more. Despite this I've filed on-line for three or four years, but like any on-line products, consumer beware

Wrong. 1) You have to buy a computer 2) You have to subscribe to a service 3) You likely have to pay for additional software 4) Correcting your errors is not always possible without additional filing if you hit the button too early 5) IRS computers may not be available or otherwise be able to access your return 6) Yes, CPAs charge too much. But the software only does what the user tells it to do. 'Garbage in, garbage out'. Mistakes are still possible and even likely. Is that all? Costly and just as error producing. There's no status to e-filing.

I've been filing online since 1998, except for 2 years when I was battling cancer. Those two years, I paid a H&R Block and I paid 4X as much as Turbo Tax and both times ended up writing big checks to Uncle Sam. It's secure and I have never been ripped off by scammers. I've been paying bills, banking and investing online since the mid 90's and have yet to been ripped off. I figure if someone hacked into my accounts they'd feel sorry for me and give me money.

I don't have a problem with filing online, but I end up doing basic tax forms every year for people who are so intimidated by the 'simple form' that they pay rip off tax preparers $50 or more to fill out forms that take 5 minutes, if that, for those preparers to fill out. It's ridiculous. Finding an honest preparer who charges a fair price is right up there with finding an honest dentist or mechanic.. Yes, I have all three actually, but it took years to find them. And I don't do my one taxes because they are not one form easy and most IRS instructions may as well be written in Chinese.

Sure make it easier for the scam artist who have stolen your social security number to get paid faster.

I went to a CPA whom my father and my step-mother recommended. They had their taxes done by him. After my father and his wife moved to Maine, I stayed with this CPA until he passed away. I found another CPA and I went to school with his brother. My new CPA looked at my taxes and saw tremendous mistakes what the old CPA did. It took quite a while to straighten out the mess what the old CPA did. The old CPA didn't include the legal deductions which I only got small refunds because of it. I have been with my new CPA for over 10 years. I even recommended him to my co-workers and they even took their tax work to him. I just had my taxes done by him and for the first time E-File was used. I felt saddness my father and his wife recommended this CPA and I told my father about what he did and my father shook his head. I still prefer a CPA because they know tax laws. Filing taxes online may look easy but mistakes can happen. My old CPA was too much old school.

TaxACT upgrade did get the $11. I used the TaxACT upgrade to verify. But did not pay for it.