In our first year out of college, my wife's employer screwed up her taxes and basically withheld no income tax for the year, so when we did our taxes, we owed the government $700. Besides telling you how hopelessly broke we were, we decided that TurboTax must have screwed something up, so we went to H&R Block, and the guy there used tax software that looked damn near identical to punch in our numbers and come up with the same result...only now we owed the government $700 and him $200.

 

We've used TurboTax every year since, and unless someone comes up with a very compelling reason to try one of those free services out, we'll be using TurboTax again.

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