TurboCheat

Those folks over at Intuit offer a FREE way to file your federal taxes and a free state in some cases, but they don’t advertise it and if you aren’t careful you end up paying almost $50 to file the damn things. But, if you got to [this website(http://www.taxfreedom.com/) you can use TurboTax for free.

Here’s what happened: the IRS wants everyone to use e-filing because it is so much cheaper and so it decided to create its own e-file system online. Intuit got all upset and the two agreed that Intuit would create a free version of TurboTax, which it would then try and keep a big fat secret. Even the IRS website doesn’t prominently display any information about free TurboTax.

That’s OK, the blogosphere will take over. That site again: http://www.taxfreedom.com/. And the state version for people who qualify: http://www.statetaxfreedom.com/.

Enjoy.