Re: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

2019-03-08 Thread 'Bill Gallik' via VIPhone
Ms. Schneider et al,

In the past I had used TaxAct on my Windows PC and it was definitely completely 
accessible via JAWS.  After losing all my vision, I had hesitated to continue 
doing my own tax preparation because I was redisent about trusting the OCR to 
accurately identify digits - very important in tax preparation.  

You have piqued my interest in trying to do the task myself once again.  The 
TaxAct people do have an iOS app available in the App Store and I installed it 
on my iPhone 6 last night.  I am going to give it a go and see how accurately 
the modern OCR is and whether or not the TaxAct app is as accessible as the 
Windows software package happened to be.  I may even look into checking for a 
MacOS version of TaxAct.

My younger brother has a tax preparation business in Ashland and I’ve had him 
do this for me since 1996 (lost all my vision in April, 1995).  

I will offer an analysis here after trying it out!



- Bill from Ino, Wisconsin
- Dear Optimist, Pessimist, and Realist, While you guys were busy arguing about 
the glass of water, I drank it!
- Sincerely, The Opportunist


On Mar 7, 2019, at 4:23 PM, Lynn Schneider  wrote:

Hi everyone.  Tax time is upon us in the US and I was wondering if there were 
ways to deal with this independently using my iPhone.  I typically got help 
with this in the past, but was hoping to try doing it myself this time around 
since my economic situation has not changed much this year, so I anticipate 
that things should be pretty simple.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

Sent from my iPhone

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Re: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

2019-03-07 Thread Peter Logan
No, I had no sighted help.  I have used turbotax.com and the turbotax app for 
the past several years.  Some things work better in the app vs. the web site.  
you just might have to try one or the other.

Sent from my IPhome.

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Lelia Struve  wrote:
> 
> Do you need any sighted assistance doing your taxes at all when using either 
> the app or online?
> 
> Lelia 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 7, 2019, at 3:26 PM,   
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I used the turbo tax app ... along with turbotax.com.  
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Lynn 
>> Schneider
>> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 5:24 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?
>> 
>> Hi everyone.  Tax time is upon us in the US and I was wondering if there 
>> were ways to deal with this independently using my iPhone.  I typically got 
>> help with this in the past, but was hoping to try doing it myself this time 
>> around since my economic situation has not changed much this year, so I 
>> anticipate that things should be pretty simple.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any insights.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

2019-03-07 Thread Lelia Struve
Do you need any sighted assistance doing your taxes at all when using either 
the app or online?

Lelia 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 3:26 PM,   
> wrote:
> 
> I used the turbo tax app ... along with turbotax.com.  
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Lynn 
> Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 5:24 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?
> 
> Hi everyone.  Tax time is upon us in the US and I was wondering if there were 
> ways to deal with this independently using my iPhone.  I typically got help 
> with this in the past, but was hoping to try doing it myself this time around 
> since my economic situation has not changed much this year, so I anticipate 
> that things should be pretty simple.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insights.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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RE: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

2019-03-07 Thread pdllogan77
I used the turbo tax app ... along with turbotax.com.  

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Lynn 
Schneider
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 5:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

Hi everyone.  Tax time is upon us in the US and I was wondering if there were 
ways to deal with this independently using my iPhone.  I typically got help 
with this in the past, but was hoping to try doing it myself this time around 
since my economic situation has not changed much this year, so I anticipate 
that things should be pretty simple.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

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Doing US taxes independently, is it possible?

2019-03-07 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi everyone.  Tax time is upon us in the US and I was wondering if there were 
ways to deal with this independently using my iPhone.  I typically got help 
with this in the past, but was hoping to try doing it myself this time around 
since my economic situation has not changed much this year, so I anticipate 
that things should be pretty simple.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

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