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> I don't think the IRS doesn't actually get all of your W2s, 1099s in time to do your taxes.

It doesn't need to? It should have all your information from prior year pre-entered, except the wage numbers that change.

That's the value proposition. At least don't make people re-enter their address and employer information again. (unless it changed, obviously)



My w2s aren't that stable, there aren't many that change year to year.

I don't have to re-enter very much, and the import from PDF means you enter even less. It is a huge step up from having to do my taxes by hand by editing PDFs and maintaining a spreadsheet when I was in China because tax software couldn't deal with the foreign income exclusion yet.

But ya, if I only had w2s to worry about, I would expect to file nothing like when I was paying Chinese/Swiss taxes (well, China had a weird self report you had to do yearly, but it was in Chinese and I just copied the numbers via a powerpoint management gave us). Of course, in either country, if you have a non-trivial situation, you had to file something as well.




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