{"id":909,"date":"2017-02-13T05:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/?p=909"},"modified":"2017-02-13T05:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T05:10:24","slug":"tips-for-using-free-tax-return-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/02\/13\/tips-for-using-free-tax-return-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips For Using Free Tax Return Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As tax season rolls around, many around the country will endure the monotonous and mind numbing task of going through their financials in order to determine their tax situation. However, there are many software based tax helpers that come at little to no cost and are widely available to anyone with an internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>Of the many providers, the largest is <a href=\"https:\/\/turbotax.intuit.com\/\">Intuit&#8217;s TurboTax<\/a> which provides a streamlined way to file and prepare taxes. In fact of the company&#8217;s revenue, Turbotax accounts for 89% of all of Intuit&#8217;s sales.<\/p>\n<p>A new player in the field, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditkarma.com\/tax\">CreditKarma<\/a> offers users free tax preparation, receiving revenue for the customer&#8217;s data rather than charging them a fee for the services. The company also makes money by peddling other products to their users based on the information entered into their tax services.<\/p>\n<p>As similar services begin to pop up, companies such as Intuit and H&amp;R Block will begin to face competition for users seeking to file their taxes for free and may look to switch their revenue models to those similar to CreditKarma in order to keep their customers.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-to-know-before-using-free-tax-return-services-1486722601<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tax season rolls around, many around the country will endure the monotonous and mind numbing task of going through their financials in order to determine their tax situation. However, there are many software based tax helpers that come at little to no cost and are widely available to anyone with an internet connection. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/2017\/02\/13\/tips-for-using-free-tax-return-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tips For Using Free Tax Return Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"cburdsall","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/author\/cburdsall\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"As tax season rolls around, many around the country will endure the monotonous and mind numbing task of going through their financials in order to determine their tax situation. However, there are many software based tax helpers that come at little to no cost and are widely available to anyone with an internet connection. Of&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/finis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}