Jake likes turbotax, I used to always just do them myself and never would have bothered with buying something but since he already has it I gave it a try last year. I liked being able to easily compare how things would work out if we filed separately or jointly and doing everything online instead of messing with paper forms.
Taxes really aren't that hard (unless you have extra stuff going on like a lot of investments, business expenses, or make a lot of charitable deductions), and the IRS isn't that mean. We actually forgot to claim a couple of savings bonds that we cashed in and all that happened was that they sent us a letter saying that our claimed income didn't match their records and that we owed $XX.xx in taxes, there were no fees or interest charged unless we waited until after a certain date (which was a fairly generous amount of time but I don't remember exactly how much) and there was a clear and easy way to dispute their claims if you felt that the error was on their part.
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