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> I'd suggest FreeTaxUSA.com as an alternative.

LOL I just tried to sign up and they rejected me because my personal email is on a .ch domain:

  The Email Address can't be a foreign email address ending with .ch.

Wowwwwww.

Certainly is a weird requirement. Could this possibly a governmental requirement? I certainly know governments have some silly requirements.

I contacted their support and they said it was for security purposes. Hah...

And yet US citizens resident abroad still have to file US taxes, even if they are dual citizens and have never lived in the US.

But they have to file a 1040NR, which most of the tax software won't touch with a ten foot pole.