> Bonus: No bullshit screens holding you up while it "checks the accuracy" or "finishes things up" like other tax prep software does if only to make you feel like you're getting your moneys' worth out of it when it already computed those numbers 5 hours ago.
That's awesome!
One of my big pet peeves around TurboTax is the way is intentionally pauses my multi-core, hyper-threaded, zillion gigahertz computers from doing 1960's level calculations (IF user checked off option A, then multiply by whatever)... so that it can look like it's busy.
Congrats to Intuit for fully automating the process of "looking busy for the boss", I guess.
I went from zero to filed in 11 minutes on the federal side. Amazingly fast.
For the state side it's a little more complex (because of Events), but essentially the flow is to wait for the IRS to accept the Direct File first (which took only 2 minutes). Which also meant - holy hell, the IRS has already signed off on my tax return, basically, which kicks off the refund flow. Once that happened, I was invited to continue the data transfer and approve an IRS Oauth-esque flow to send data onwards to FileMyStateTaxes.
I assume now that I fixed the snags this time around next year the state side should also only take about 10 more minutes.
That's awesome!
One of my big pet peeves around TurboTax is the way is intentionally pauses my multi-core, hyper-threaded, zillion gigahertz computers from doing 1960's level calculations (IF user checked off option A, then multiply by whatever)... so that it can look like it's busy.
Congrats to Intuit for fully automating the process of "looking busy for the boss", I guess.