TL;DR: H&R Block’s online tax preparation packages are currently $40 to $70 cheaper than the equivalents on TurboTax’s website. As of March 1, you can file federal plus one state at H&R Block for less than the cost of federal only at TurboTax.
No, you probably won’t go to jail if you do your taxes wrong. However, there are a few common mistakes that could really screw your plans of blowing that return on a May vacation. Unsurprisingly, most of them happen when doing taxes on paper because it’s ~free.~
Things that are easy to blow over — like writing the wrong social security number, making mathematical errors, entering the wrong filing status, or even forgetting to sign — can delay your check by up to two months or lower your expected refund by a few hundred dollars. Read more…
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