Re: OT Filing for free vs Free File, was Re: Simple software for a scanner … LIDE 700F)
On 2020-03-09, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 09:02:02AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> One hopes that you've distinguished between 'filing for "free"' and
>> the actual IRS Free File Program.
>>
>> https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/about-the-free-file-program
>
> Use Free File Software if your income is $69,000 or less and Free File
> Fillable Forms if your income is greater than $69,000.
This is misleading (actually it's just plain false); there is *no*
$69,000 threshold or restriction for using Free File Fillable Forms.
I'd use it myself (as I don't need software "help" but do need to efile),
if it wasn't for the fact that
Forms with Known Limitations
Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return:
...
You cannot enter letters where the form is expecting a nine digit Tax
Identification Number (a Social Security, Individual Tax Identification
Number, etc.
IOW, the 1040 will not accept NRA (precisely what the IRS requires I
enter for an NRA spouse with no US tax obligation or TIN) in the SSN/TIN
field.
Anyway, I'm only saying for the sake of others who might be looking for a
"truly" free method of efiling their taxes. I used to mail mine by
registered mail when the IRS had an antenna at the US embassy here (but it
closed for budgetary reasons a few years back).
Stop the world, I wanna get off.
--
"When we encounter computer output that looks like what we produce by thinking,
we are liable to credit the computer with thought... By that rule of inference,
there would have to be an orchestra somewhere inside your CD player and a farm
in your refrigerator." --David Halpern
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