FreeTaxUSA
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5recommend
1warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I moved to FreeTaxUSA last year and it's like a breath of fresh air”
10+ year TurboTax userswitched from TurboTaxon “Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professiona…”
“instead of paying the $150 to file, I had Claude go and fill the same forms out on FreeTaxUSA and compared the values”
switched from TurboTaxon “Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software”
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“I think I will just move to something like”
“FreeTaxUsa [1] exists and is much cheaper than Turbo Tax.”
“There are already ways to file your taxes for free or very cheap, e.g. https://www.freetaxusa.com”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Why hasn't AI replaced Tax filing software 2 mentions
- Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments 1 mention
- FreeTaxUSA's Binding Arbitration Agreement 1 mention
- Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI 1 mention
- I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free 1 mention
- Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states 1 mention
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“I moved to FreeTaxUSA last year and it's like a breath of fresh air”
“instead of paying the $150 to file, I had Claude go and fill the same forms out on FreeTaxUSA and compared the values”
“FreeTaxUSA is even cheaper.”
Well the better option is https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-forms
“I think I will just move to something like”
“FreeTaxUsa [1] exists and is much cheaper than Turbo Tax.”
“There are already ways to file your taxes for free or very cheap, e.g. https://www.freetaxusa.com”