[TriLUG] Tax Preparation

[Stephen Wiley via TriLUG]

My understanding is that OTS is maintained by a finance guy and is
intended to be used with eg free form filer. Historically my taxes have
been simple enough to just fill out the 1040/EZ by hand and/or manually
enter it into free form filer although the last few years I've used
TurboTax web (I'm not entirely sure how much that actually helps
though.)

--Stephen

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:55:58AM -0400, Alan Porter via TriLUG wrote:
> 
> I can't imagine anyone open-sourcing a tax preparation app, simply because
> of the nature of the problem, liability, etc.  And keeping up with tax
> legislation.  But maybe they exist.  Or maybe just "free filing" is
> close enough to what you're looking for.
> 
> Last year, I finally abandoned the big tax software providers, and I moved
> online to the scammy-sounding FreeTaxUSA.com .  I did check to make sure
> they were recommended by the IRS and the NC-DOR first.
> 
> See:
> * https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/
> * https://www.ncdor.gov/file-pay/efile-resources-taxpayers/nc-free-file
> 
> In the process of moving, I ended up filling out tax forms using
> FreeTaxUSA's
> online service and also H&R Block's TaxCut (running on a Windows VM on
> Ubuntu).
> And the results of the two matched.
> 
> Hope this helps.  And maybe someone here will enlighten us to other options.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2025-09-24 08:57, Ron Belcher via TriLUG wrote:
> > Anybody care to recommend an open source income tax prep program for
> > Ubuntu?
> > I have been using TurboTax on my wife's MS  10 machine for years. Now
> > that is gone.
> > Thanks,
> > ron
> 
> 
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