Oh God, that’s so fucking stupid.
Gotta keep the auditors busy!
There are like 100 for the whole country. No one gets audited, statistically speaking. It’s why you’ve never learned anything about taxes from your parents or friends. They don’t know either. People pay people at HR block who don’t know about taxes either to file. No one gets in trouble because the only people who know tax laws work for the very wealthy. Or at the IRS where there are about 100 of them to 300m of us.
Use FreeTaxUSA or OnLine Taxes. Much more affordable online tax tools.
I wonder if I counted…
So I did the tax prep using a free offer from TurboTax. Everything seemed traditional.
Then, at the end it generated an AI summary of my return. I didn’t have a choice, it just did it. I have the “unhelpful” feedback because:
- Despite saying it was “explaining” the numbers and why, all it did was just list the numbers from the fairly straightforward table right above the AI response in a more awkward form, not explaining anything.
- Further, despite the seemingly easy task of “Take a table of figures and repeat them in prose”, it still screwed up and messed up and of the figures that all our had to do was repeat verbatim.
So AI was forced into my tax prep and did nothing substantive (thank goodness) and flubbed the cosmetic role it tried to play.
Turbox Tax worked hard to get AI some revenue.
If you didn’t do the multi-step downgrade of your service (have to downgrade two or three times to get to the free version) then you might’ve counted. The AI doesn’t do anything, but it starts as a way to justify charging you like $140. It’ll default you paying for it even if its unused.
Why does nobody use FreeTaxUSA?
I actually had not used TurboTax before. And as a result I could do state and federal free with them this year, so it was cheaper than freetaxusa.
But won’t be using it again next year, it was fine but not particularly impressive compared to usually cheaper alternatives.
I’ve been using it for like 4-5 years now I think? It’s awesome and does what TurboTax does but is muuuuuuuuuuuuch cheaper (if you choose to file online) or free (print and send via snail mail).
It is pretty awesome. I’m in a state with no income taxes, so it’s free for me to file with them.
Hey LLM. I’m thinking of deducting my Corvette as a business expense for my landscaping business, is that a good idea?
What a creative way to lower your tax burden! This totally makes sense and you can be confident that your decision will be well received.
(Others can take the LLM tone better than me, and I don’t have the patience for LLM verbosity).
Mine will 100% tell me I’m an idiot for that.
Why don’t they just wait for the government collapse like everyone else. /S
What could go wrong?
It’s probably more of a replacement for Google than anything. IMO for stuff like this it isn’t different than asking a forum and as long as you know that there’s little room for fuck ups.
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Last year I asked the HR block ai chat bot thing a question and it got it wrong.
Over 50% of Americans can barely read
So if we do this, and the AI fucks up, can we just blame the AI and not get in trouble? Isn’t that why it exists?
You can’t even blame your human accountant.
People can’t fill out a form online for free? Or mostly free?
You can do it on paper for free at least
