Spent 10 minutes with my SO, moving our shared deductions between us to see which distribution resulted in the lowest amount of taxes. Turns out that the tax authorities are pretty good at what they do, as the best distribution was what they’d already prefilled.
Despite having very different income, no matter how we moved the numbers, the numbers at the bottom didn’t change in a manner where the total would result in a higher refund.
So we both ended up filing our taxes with no changes to the prefilled values.
EDIT:
TIL that the Norwegian tax authorities appear to have an official youtube channel. There you can see an example in English how it’s done. Can’t wait for them to have a youtube reaction face thumbnail or a collab with MrBeast.
The $16 is if you’re also filing state taxes with it. Federal is still free.
I wonder how many people actually only do federal with it? 2%?
I believe that people who live in states without income tax don’t need to file state taxes (at least usually, maybe there are exceptions). That includes:
If my math is correct, about 21% of the US population live in one of those states.
Yep. As a Washington resident, I was flabbergasted through this thread. Pay? What? It’s Freetaxusa
I only do federal because my state lets you file online for free. So I just copy over my responses once they give you the federal PDF.