It's obvious (to me at least) why online sales/usage is growing and desktop/installed product usage is shrinking. More and more taxpayers are simply not earning enough to justify the filing complexity of a desktop product. Just complete that 1040EZ online and be done with it! I wish that my filing situation would allow that, but I'm thankful that my financial situation does not.
However, my financial situation really doesn't justify paying a CPA or tax attorney to do my filing for me either. The details are complicated but the numbers themselves are just not high enough to spend real money on someone I can absolutely trust to do it right (and absolutely sue them if they don't).
So it's all on me to meet my legal tax-paying obligations to Uncle Sam. TurboTax's desktop products were a great help for that but yeah it does look like I will soon be filling out IRS PDF forms either "manually" on my computer or via the old school method with pen and paper. Hope I can find that solar calculator laying around somewhere...
I spent 35 years as an IT guy and now in my retirement I get to look forward to being a wannabe CPA. What joy! 😋
