Income Tax Category: Income Tax

Last year it was called H&R Block Signature service, and this year it’s called H&R Block Best of Both. You prepare your taxes online using the H&R Block (formerly Tax Cut) tax software and an H&R Block tax professional will review, certify, and efile your income tax return for you. You get the best tax software that H&R Block has to offer plus you get to discuss your return with an H&R Block tax preparer, Best of Both!

• Complete your taxes online, includes all the features of H&R Block At Home Premium edition.
• Email or call your H&R Block tax professional when you have questions or need advice — unlimited advice!
• Your H&R Block tax professional will review, correct, certify and efile your tax return.

H&R Block Best of Both service is great for those who want to prepare their own taxes, but would also like a tax professional to look over their shoulder. For just $99.95 we think this is a great deal. Visit our H&R Block web page to learn more and to receive our limited time only 15% off H&R Block At Home online editions and H&R Block software download and CD ROM editions.

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Waiting for your W-2 forms so that you can file your 2009 income tax return? W-2 forms are the standardized statements of income that each employer must provide to their employees before January 31, 2010 for the 2009 income tax year. Depending upon the size and policies of your company’s payroll department, you may get your W-2 form early or late in January. Lucky employees get their W-2 forms the second week of January just about when the IRS begins to accept efile of income tax forms. The IRS begins to accept e-files on January 15, 2010.

Tax Form W-2 for 2009

Free printable tax forms for 2009 are now available online. Printable tax forms 1040EZ, 1040A and 1040 long form are available for download online to help prepare your income tax return before the filing deadline.

For most income tax payers, your federal income tax forms must be postmarked by April 15, 2010. Federal income taxes are based on the tax year January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009. Income Tax Pro has organized printable tax forms under the headings 1040EZ, 1040A, 1040 and subsets of 1040 which include the most common schedules.

Download, save and print your tax forms today.

IRS begins the 2009 income tax return season this month and has announced that IRS efile opens on January 15, 2010. IRS efile as we discuss on our web site is the process of filing out your federal income tax return and sending it to the IRS electronically versus sending your income tax return to the IRS through the mail.

According to the IRS web site, the efile service rolled out nationally in 1990 and delivered 4.2 million income tax returns. Last year the IRS efile service delivered over 95 million income tax returns or about 66% of all filed tax returns.

The free tax software found on our web site can be used to efile your IRS tax forms online or through the purchase of premium software. To get your income tax refund as fast as possible, choose the direct deposit option. The leading income tax software providers H&R Block, Turbo Tax, and Tax Act are quoting 8 days as the number of days to receive your IRS tax refund using the direct deposit option. The IRS states “in as few as 10 days” on their web site.

In contrast if you are planning to mail in your IRS tax refund and receive an IRS refund check by mail, that could take up to 6 weeks! For sure it is much faster to efile.

TaxCut Free edition is available to those who qualify and efile their income tax return online. Also available online, by download, or as a CD by mail are the popular H&R Block TaxCut software editions:

• TaxCut Basic
• TaxCut Premium
• TaxCut Home & Business
• TaxCut Deduction Pro
• H&R Block Signature
• H&R Block Online Office

Of all the H&R Block TaxCut software available today, we like the H&R Block Signature software product the best. Starting at just $79.95 you get year your tax advice from an H&R Block tax professional, support in the case of a tax audit, and additional H&R Block guarantees that you might not find elsewhere. H&R Block Signature is similar to TaxCut in that you prepare your income tax return yourself online, then, an H&R Block tax professional will review, comment, edit, sign, and efile your forms.

For more information please see our TaxCut and H&R Block web pages.

Income tax forms are available online for free, you just might need a link pointed in the right direction to find them. Free printable federal income tax forms are organized by filing status along with frequently required schedules and form instructions. Federal tax forms 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ for examples, along with Schedule A, Schedule B, Schedule EIC, tax form 2441 Child and Dependent Care Expenses and more.

This year even more income tax payers can prepare and efile their federal income tax return for free using Turbo Tax and Tax Cut online. Avoid mistakes and file your income tax return faster by using one of these top rated income tax preparation software programs.

Turbo Tax Free is now available to tax payers filing their 1040EZ IRS federal income tax refund. That’s Free as in $0.00 free Turbo Tax software that you can use online to efile your 1040EZ tax refund fast. Turbo Tax currently states that if you efile online and select the direct deposit option, you can receive your income tax refund in as little as 8 days.

Turbo Tax Free is fully functional income tax preparation software online. Turbo Tax Free asks you simplified questions then puts your answers on the right forms including forms 1040EZ, 1040A and 1040 long form. The Turbo Tax Free edition does have income restrictions and does not cover tax schedules C, D, E and F, however you can upgrade to Turbo Tax Deluxe or other Turbo Tax editions if you need more forms or prefer any advanced features.

If you like Turbo Tax Free, try also Quicken Free which is personal finance software made by the some company.

TaxAct Free is now available to those who want to efile their federal 1040EZ tax refund online, and, TaxAct Free is also available to everyone else who files federal taxes including 1040A and 1040 long forms!

TaxAct has been providing free IRS tax filing for the past 10 years.  No matter your income tax situation, married, single, easy, or complex, TaxAct Free IRS federal tax return preparation software has you covered. Free TaxAct means that you can:

• Prepare your IRS tax return FREE
• Print your IRS tax return FREE
• Efile your IRS tax return FREE
• No income restrictions

Upgrade if you like to TaxAct Deluxe or TaxAct Ultimate editions, however, TaxAct Free edition is fully functional, includes the Deduction Examiner and walk-through videos. It costs nothing to try out TaxAct Free online, and this tax software is also available for download and CD by mail. Visit our TaxAct Free web page to learn more or to get started.

IRS today confirmed the opening of their e-file program for 2008 federal income tax returns. The official IRS e-file open date is January 16, 2009.

IRS e-file program began as a pilot project in just 3 cities back in 1986 with just 25,000 tax returns filed electronically that year. Each year the number of tax payers choosing e-file continues to grow, with almost 90 million IRS tax returns e-filed last year according to published IRS statistics.

Among a dozen other things, the IRS also said the following today:

“…the error rate is so low for e-filed returns. In fact, the error rate is significantly reduced from 20 percent with paper returns to about 1 percent with e-filed returns.”

“Taxpayers who use e-file and who choose direct deposit can receive their refund in as few as 10 days. That’s because with e-file, there’s no paper return going to the IRS. And with direct deposit, there’s no paper refund going to the taxpayer.”

So not only does e-file deliver your income tax refund money faster than mail in tax forms,  those who e-file usually don’t make any errors. No doubt that income tax preparation software is partly responsible for the reduction in tax form errors. And we must note also that Turbo Tax and Tax Cut are quoting “in as few as 8 days” as the number of days for which you can receive your IRS income tax refund.