ezTaxReturn.com – Cashback, Rebates & Rewards

These guys flagged my tax prep as a fraud causing me to file my taxes after the April 18th deadline. Despite me having the 2FA feature to log in I had to send them a copy of my drivers license. I am afraid these people will take all the info they need to make a false identity of all of my information. This is the last time I would use this “Quack” tax free file service. I protect my identity like a wold animal.

EZ kept sending my e-mails that time was running out. I'd used them before. So, I decided to do the free filing. My situation is not very complicated (I make about $17K and about $15K form SocSec, plus a few hundred in interest; one of my employers is out-of-country and one sent a 1099NEC tax statement), but the "half hour" turned into 1.5 hours, and the "free"wound up costing almost $50! Maybe this was because I had them do the state tax as well. If so, this was not clearly indicated that this is where this fee came from. I only found out about the fee at the end of my 1.5 hrs on the last filing day, so I pretty much had to accept it. Some of the terminology was unclear, so I had to guess categories -- and sometimes go back when later material indicated that I had entered data in the wrong category. The company has an online help service that responds within 24 hours (I got an answer after 6-12 hours), but the answer did not directly address my simple question (which was asking what "previous year"or "last year" meant. The software had some minor glitches (in correcting, I was unable to change one item in a category, so I had to erase everything in that category and re-enter everything but the one item that was wrong because I had given the wrong answer because of the ambiguous wording). The software does do a lot of checking, i.e., it asks you to look at what is being submitted to give you the chance to check your work. The software also does a lot of clclulating a lot of äutomatic"stuff that would be tedious to do by hand.

They're another online tax return service that offers a "free" federal return and charges a lot for the state return. If you end up paying for the state return like I did, make sure you file early and check to make sure your return really is filed, mine wasn't and I had to go back and repeat the steps I'd taken the week before.

I used an IRS " free file "programs for years and never had any problems. EzTaxReturn is absolutely the one I will never use again. This program adds thousands of "other earned income" all by itself. I have not earn any other earned income and not included any figures pretending to it while preparing my taxes using EzTaxReturn. As per company response "the program automatically calculates the amount to put on Line 1h". Since I missed this "addition" and filed the taxes already I have to go thru the troubles of amanding my tax returns otherwise I'm on hook for tax on thousands dollars worth of income that I had not earn. Save yourself time and aggravation and stay clear of EzTaxRetrun.

They guarantee you get the maximum return—right! Their software doesn’t support the Michigan home heating credit so now I have to go elsewhere or figure out how to do that by myself. Why would you file a state return only to learn it did just part of it? I complained but they don’t care. Avoid eztaxreturn.com