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A Tax Note for State Partial Residents and Nonresidents

Last week I filed my taxes on my own, first attempting to use TurboTax’s online software, which went terribly, and later downloading H&R Block’s TaxCut software, which worked out very well for me. If you are going to do your own taxes, I highly recommend downloading software rather than using an online tool, since the latter is very crippled compared to the former. With your own software, you can tweak and test different returns as you see fit. This isn’t always possible with online versions. Furthermore, the downloaded software usually costs the same price or less. This was the first time I filed my own taxes, and I thought it would be a breeze after speaking to a friend who has been doing it for years.

But I ran into a snag. Read More…

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