By the way

I sent off my taxes today. Yes, it will take awhile to get my refund compared to electronic filing, but it took less time than the frustrating day I had with TurboTax and they don't get $106 of it. Yay!

PS

This library still has tax forms and instructions to pick up so you can do your taxes. Yay! Take that, TurboTax!

I just wasted two hours of my life trying to do my taxes through TurboTax

Something I've done for years without any trouble. Next thing I know, it's costing more to do mine because I got an early distribution from my retirement, then it's costing some for doing my state taxes, which is normal, and then there's ANOTHER fee for taking my fee out of my refund. The next thing I know, it's costing $106, when I've never paid more than $35 before. I would do better going to a tax prep service. It wound up being roughly ONE-HALF of my refund. I am not going to write exactly what I am feeling about TurboTax at the moment, but here are some observations:

• One, the stupid app that they tout crashed my phone, which has plenty of space and memory, so I'm suspecting it's the stupid app.
• Second, I couldn't remember my password, because it required a special character, and the process was IMMENSELY stupid in trying to recover it, as it asked me a question that I answered, then asked me all sorts of questions that didn't apply to me (no, Intuit, I've never financed a car, ever in my life). Then I put in the answer to the original question one more time and it did, indeed, take it.
• But it did it all on my browser on my phone, not on the app, which was annoying. So I had to type in my W-2 information, some of which it wouldn't take correctly, like my employer's street address. Any date was incredibly hard to correct if you got it wrong. It was, in short, incredibly difficult and annoying to do anything on TurboTax this year. The reason I didn't use my computer, which I brought to the library to get info from last year if needed, was that I'm on an open connexion here, and at least it should be more secure on my phone network, I assume. But this was the worst tax experience in my life. I'll be going somewhere else, that's for sure. Goodbye after probably a decade, TurboTax--you are too greedy for me.

7 minutes/$666/$313/free

• 7 minutes (How much I beat the midnight deadline in e-filing my taxes. Okay, yes, I put it off, but I've been sick this week, too. I didn't mean to put it off till quite so late!)
  
• $666 (How much I owe the federal government for this year...yes, $666. Aren't you glad I'm not a religious wingnut?)
  
• $313 (How much I owe the Kentucky state government for this year.)
  
• Free (How much it cost to do my taxes via TurboTax, through an alliance Kentucky participates in for lower income filers [You have to go in through the state's Revenue Cabinet E-File web page.])

Having it all over (except the paying, of course)....Priceless.

It's a shame when you make less than $25,000 and you owe about $1000 back in taxes that weren't withheld. I did change my W-4s at the second job partway through the year but I'm not sure how much it really helped. Before I put in the gas station W-2, I had a refund of $424 coming to me, so apparently too much is withheld at the hospital and too little at the gas station. Sigh.