Death Kitten suggested this thread so I don't wanna take credit for his idea 
What's worked for online tax preparation for you? What hasn't worked? What have you been afraid to try? Who supports Linux really well?
My own experience -
I used TurboTax online to prepare and file my federal, state and city taxes. Although TurboTax's tax preparation interface is all java TT requires IE or FF under Windows or Safari if you've got a Mac.
I figured since it was java it'd be pretty much browser independent; FF under Linux will give you a link that says "I know this browser's unsupported - continue anyway" but accessing the site under chromium won't give you the option to continue anyway - your only choice is to use a supported browser.
I could have changed the user agent string in chromium and the site *probably* would have worked just fine but considering I was doing financials I decided not to take the chance and used FF instead.
Inline PDF previews of completed tax forms didn't work in FF but you could download them and view them. Until you pay them the money the tax forms are watermarked "Do Not File" but that's okay.
My federal and state were e-filed but my city income tax has to be mailed so I printed the city return and mailed it in. Federal is still waiting since I itemize deductions and you can't file those until Feb 14 (but TT has it and will e-file it when it's time) but I've already got notification that the state has accepted my return.
cheers -
What's worked for online tax preparation for you? What hasn't worked? What have you been afraid to try? Who supports Linux really well?
My own experience -
I used TurboTax online to prepare and file my federal, state and city taxes. Although TurboTax's tax preparation interface is all java TT requires IE or FF under Windows or Safari if you've got a Mac.
I figured since it was java it'd be pretty much browser independent; FF under Linux will give you a link that says "I know this browser's unsupported - continue anyway" but accessing the site under chromium won't give you the option to continue anyway - your only choice is to use a supported browser.
I could have changed the user agent string in chromium and the site *probably* would have worked just fine but considering I was doing financials I decided not to take the chance and used FF instead.
Inline PDF previews of completed tax forms didn't work in FF but you could download them and view them. Until you pay them the money the tax forms are watermarked "Do Not File" but that's okay.
My federal and state were e-filed but my city income tax has to be mailed so I printed the city return and mailed it in. Federal is still waiting since I itemize deductions and you can't file those until Feb 14 (but TT has it and will e-file it when it's time) but I've already got notification that the state has accepted my return.
cheers -
Now I am concerned. Didn't they QC their forms and trapping mechanisms? Obviously not. This raises the question "If they cut corners on that IMPORTANT activity, where else have they cut corners?" Looks like some manager type wanted to launch even with ice on the O-rings. Their support is open 8AM to 8PM. Wouldn't you know it? I didn't find this catch-22 until 8:03PM. I left an email. Nothing back yet. They claim they'll respond within 24 hrs, but we'll see. I would return to TaxSlayer but I like the idea of having a perfect set of tax returns WITH ALL information printed out.
), too. Their site uses the "F5 Big-IP" OS and is running the Microsoft-IIS/6.0 web server. The OS is ok, the vulnerability of the IIS/6.0 is a concern.
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