In doing some research on the subject of electronic filing of income tax returns with the IRs I found some useful information at http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html#skiptocontent Where I found, among other things, free e-filing is available for individuals with gross incomes of less than 56,000 dollars. I found however, no mention of tax programs like Tax Cut, Turbo Tax, etc., and their levels of accessibility.
Last year I was able to easily get my taxes filed by using a web based program. I would prefer all my tax data be saved locally, but was unable to find an accessible alternative. On the irs.gov home page, there is a link for Accessibility and a subsequent form for making comments about the subject so near and dear to many of us. I'm on my way there to offer my comments. Won't you join me? http://www.irs.gov/help/page/0,,id=13148,00.html Pressing H jumps you right to Heading 3 for sending your comments. I hope this information is useful to the list in general. It is in now way intended to express any personal convictions about the need for accessible tax filing software... grin... Sincerely, Donald E. Bowen, Jr. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jacobson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:16 PM To: gw-info Subject: Re: Tax Software I've been a TurboTax user for many years, and I noticed that a number of things changed for the negative last year. From what you are saying, there is even more changes for this year. Can you give a few examples? Also, is there a way to see the program for 2009 without buying it? I had better try to determine what I am going to do. TaxAct was somewhat accessible from 2nd Story Software, and I think there were even JFW scripts for it so something probably could be done with Window-Eyes. It was lacking a few features that I liked in TurboTax such as being able to get a list of form fields and use the list to move to a particular place on the form, though. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:39:34 -0500, david mischel wrote: >Hi, my name is David Mischel. I use windows xp and windoweyes 6. In the >past, I have used turbotax. It wasn't great, but it was workable. I just >bought the 2009 version of turbotax, and it does not work at all. Has >anyone had any success using the 2009 version. It just came out. Also, has >anyone ever used the program, Taxcut which is the H & R block competitor to >turbotax? The taxcut people claim that it will work with window eyes. I >would appreciate any feedback. My e mail address is >[email protected] >. thank you >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search >form at the bottom of the page. >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
