Thread 106333744

Popular home&business tax return software TurboTax by Intuit has announced their software will no longer support Windows 10 starting from TurboTax 2025.

I would hate to live in a country that forces me to do tax returns when they know exactly how much tax I need to pay anyway, solely to prop up the business models of private corporations................

>>106333761
You don't have to pay someone to file your taxes for you. It's only a couple forms unless you have an abnormal financial situation.

>>106333744 (OP)
I don't pay taxes.

>>106333744 (OP)
Literally shooting themselves in the foot

>>106333744 (OP)
https://www.freetaxusa.com
Free 1099 processing for self-employed individuals

>>106333786
The sole purpose of filing taxes is to humiliate you. It's a humiliation ritual.
I have an upcoming tax audit in a few weeks and I'm dreading it, even though I'm certain I've done everything correctly, perhaps with a few formal mistakes that won't lead to extra tax payments.

>>106333744 (OP)
TurboTax free version runs in a browser now.

You got less than 8 weeks to download Flyby11 and just upgrade. Microsoft is taking a zero tolerance approach to baby ducks this time round, expect that Microsoft will do everything they can to make LTSC unusable too.

>>106333744 (OP)
>>106333761
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>>106333931
>>106334006
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>>106334122
none of theses respects your privacy and has your personal info breached and leaked

picrel is for those in the know

>>106333744 (OP)
and literally nothing value was lost

>>106334122
I would just end it

>>106334122
Lmao. m$ is so blacklisted from my system it's unbelievable.

>>106334060
it's because tax law is complicated by design and the government doesn't have a full picture so how would they do their taxes for you?

>>106333744 (OP)
That's retarded, why would their software "need" Winhoes 11?
This is just them following bad politics faggotry.

>>106334122
>expect that Microsoft will do everything they can to make LTSC unusable too.

>>106334122
If you're not a loser wagie, doing your own taxes (or having an accountant) gives you a chance to significantly reduce what you owe.
You... DO have your own corp, right?

>>106334060
If you're not a loser wagie, doing your own taxes (or having an accountant) gives you a chance to significantly reduce what you owe.
You... DO have your own corp, right?

>>106333744 (OP)
Abominable & retarded.

>>106334188
OTS is made by well to do people and it doesn't even attempt to calculate or add the proper forms for low income tax credits like EIC or CalEITC, which you'd qualify for if you're on neetbux btw.

>>106333744 (OP)
people don't use the website?

>>106334122
I was here, when it happened to W7. The SSD "bug" from the last batch of updates feels like the beginning.

>>106333744 (OP)
I do understand that TurboTax probably needs to be updated regularly to account for complex accounting rules, but for the normal self-filer can't they just use old versions?

>>106333744 (OP)
it still pisses me off that you're literally not allowed to do your taxes online for free, the only "free" way to file taxes is to mail fucktons of paper, you can't fax or email it, you can't even use the "free e-filing" options on the IRS website if your tax situation is more complicated than W2 wagie.

>>106333744 (OP)
>home
>tax return
>tax return software
This ian't a problem in any civilised country. Amerimutts are truly retarded.

This industry's very existence is always the weirdest thing about USA to me

>>106337932
american tax law is complicated if you're self-employed or have your own business, you get to creatively deduct your business expenses from your income and only pay taxes on the end result, of course if income is mostly cash then nobody has to know lmao

>>106333744 (OP)
Why would a tax calculator require the Windows 11 API to do its shit?
I bet you can run it on Win10 with a patch developed in 4 hours.

>>106338033
if(OS.getversion().contai8ns("windows 10")){
error();
return -1;
}

>>106333744 (OP)
I use Cash App (free) to file my tax return. It was originally part of Credit Karma but TurboTax bought them and discontinued the free service. There's a lawsuit against TurboTax over this, resulting in the free service being sold to Cash App.

TurboTax is a very unethical company and charges too much for their service. They lobbied the government to not offer a similar service in order maintain their monopoly.

baby ducks squeak in pain

why does it need to be local software
doesn't the web app work fine?

>>106335751
>the government doesn't have a full picture so how would they do their taxes for you?
They sure as fuck know when you get the number wrong. Tell me how that’s possible

>>106337932
What country are you from?

>>106341326
They know how much income you get, that isn't cash under the table. If you don't report that, that's the big red canoe they paddle up your ass. Everything else is just a gradient regarding your creativity in complicated tax situations. America doesn't do a flat tax so there are a lot of different possible ways you can reduce what you owe. Smart people know the legal loophopes that were written into the code for them. Stupid people try to "cheat" egregiously thinking they're smarter than a calculator.

>turbotax desktop has been a webapp for 10 years already
>literally have to login like you login to their website to do anything
>finally kill the desktop """""""program"""""" that nobody used anyway
>exact same identical interface on the website

>>106333744 (OP)
>turbokike
utter fucking dogshit. freetaxusa is free and way fucking better. I'm still mad at myself I paid those fucking yids for years before this year the humiliation ritual was so bad I had to find something else. It literally was not letting me file without consulting their black/indian women of color tax experts.

>>106338033
it took almost 30 posts for somebody to ask the only relavant question.

>>106333744 (OP)
Makes complete sense. If you were dealing with peoples identities and money you would not support a OS that doesn't even have the option for security updates. This isnt videogames.

>>106341552
Bangladesh

>>106341925
Windows 10 hasn't even been discontinued yet and even Windows 7 received patches for a few years after its supposed end of support.

>>106342063
Tax season doesn't start until the end of the year, 2 months after Microsoft is pulling support.

>>106333744 (OP)
>Imagine not having a Jewish account do your taxes.
It's free money.
I think I paid an effective 4% tax rate last year with my business Income.

>he doesn't use web-based free (or donation-basis) tax filing sites
ngmi

>>106341326
Your job sends your income to the IRS by law retard. The IRS then compares what your job reports to what you report faggot. If they see you reported zero, you get a tax bill + interest you subhuman cretin.

>>106344137
Correct, and that’s my point: civilized countries, or at least ones not captured by the taxcode-industrial complex, will take that information and use it to MAIL YOU A STATEMENT OF HOW MUCH YOU OWE AND JUST ASK FOR CORRECTIONS LIKE DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS

>>106343665
definitely ngmi

>>106336094
a million smug windows 7 users are quacking in your direction. we warned you about pajeets, we told you bro.

>>106341888
>>106338033

windows 7 users asked those questions for years and you retards just kept telling them to updoot to windows 10. you get what you fucking deserve, boot licker.

>>106333744 (OP)
imagine having a country so shit you hate to rely on proprietary software to do taxes

>>106347256
Golems don't deserve better.

>>106341326
>They sure as fuck know when you get the number wrong. Tell me how that’s possible

most tax evasion goes undetected. what little that is detected is identified via analytics and comparison to expectations. for individual taxpayers, a common audit flag is excessive business mileage and home office deductions. they don't know the numbers, they just flag you for an audit based on excessive deductions that defy expectations. but again, most evasion goes undetected and uncollected. the field audit, if it does occur, is for the purpose of determining what the number should be -- because they don't know the number beforehand.

>software drops support for operating system that is EOL
>schizophrenics have meltdowns
>>106333931
Nobody is supporting EOL operating systems you jobless retard.

>>106348078
>40% of global market share are unemployed losers

kill yourself you worthless subhuman daleet.

>>106349032
If you actually had a job, you'd know corporations still on 10 are upgrading computers to 11 and performing hardware refreshes on the systems that can't be upgraded. But you don't have a job, you don't work, you have no experience in the industry, so you delusionally think the latest in a line of OS updates ranging back decades is somehow a new and scary thing.