[TriLUG] How to do taxes on Linux?

Stephen Wiley via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Aug 26 14:25:10 EDT 2024


I'm pretty sure IRS free form filler runs fine in Firefox. It's on the
cloud but if you're submitting electronically it's the same place you're
sending it to anyway.

Otherwise you can fill out the 1040 with evince. I did that one year
just to see if it worked.

--Stephen

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:50:51AM -0400, Brian via TriLUG wrote:
> On 8/26/24 08:35, Esther L via TriLUG wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a Linux solution for doing U.S. tax preparation?
> > I need to decide later this year whether to get a Windows 11 license, or
> > pay whatever updates contract fee for Windows 10.
> 
> Maybe turbotax runs under Wine?  If you're already buying that (or a
> competing product) every year, you might try loading up a prior year's
> version with Wine to see whether it works.  I've been using Intuit's online
> service for many years, so I have no direct experience with the offline
> versions or knowledge of their requirements to run properly, but it sounds
> like something worth trying.
> 
> 
> -B
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