TurboTax’s Fight Against Free Tax Filing

• UsTaxes

  51 1,373 8.7 TypeScript

  Tax filing web application

  

  There is https://ustaxes.org , an open-source tax filing application, but I'm not adventurous enough to use it when a mistake could be very expensive.

• xdotool

  38 3,016 4.1 C

  fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more

  > I shouldn't need to download an app to a smartphone for something that I exclusively intend to use on a desktop.

  I see where you're coming from here and mostly agree. However, I will say that as someone who already had the Cash App installed the process was pretty seamless. The only major item I would change is that it would be nice to have some way to import a CSV or XLS file (or even JSON) for the capital gains forms. They offer an online spreadsheet but you still have to fill out each cell individually. If you have a few dozen trades (or more) to report it gets rather tiresome and could even be a bit error-prone.

  I suppose I could have scripted the data entry with keyboard macros (via xdotool[0]), but for something I only do once per year it probably wouldn't be worthwhile… and the interface could be different next year.

  [0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

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