Years ago the IRS struck a deal with FinTech companies, the software companies did not want the IRS publishing their own programs to allow filers to do their taxes for free. Instead they made the Free File Alliance which allows Taxpayers making less than 65k a year (Adjusted Gross Income) to file their taxes completely for free (no strings attached unlike the 'free' offers made by the FinTech companies themselves)
Check out the program: IRS Free File
P.S. If you make more than 65k AGI then they offer fill-able forms at the link above as well.
Note that TurboTax and probably others (I would expect it from H&R too) have two different versions of their free software.
If you go through the IRS's site linked above, you'll get a version that is (purportedly) not restricted on complexity but is restricted on income. That is a different free version than if you just go to the website directly and sign up for the free version there, which is heavily restricted to simple returns.
If you've already signed up on the free version from their main website, it sounds like you may have to log out before following the IRS's link.
-/u/evaned (Thanks for helping me clarify)
Submitted January 15, 2019 at 09:17AM by q7t1 http://bit.ly/2McUdEV
