What should I use to file my taxes if I want to move away from TurboTax?
E-filing the federal tax form is free, and state tax form is only like $14 I think, really cheap, and the website does a good job taking you through it step by step in an easy to understand way.
I used them this year after getting screwed by Intuit again last year and swore it would be the last time. Their UI isn’t quite as shiny but still very straightforward and easy to use for someone like me who knows almost nothing about taxes besides ‘I need to do them’.
I’ll use them again next year too, was very happy with the service.
You can also double check the numbers if you want by going through another service like Turbo Tax but stopping before the payment step.
Every year, I go ahead and self-prepare my taxes, and then type all the data into Turbotax to see if they find something I missed, and every year they do, and it's in my favor (and always worth more than the Turbotax fee). OTOH, I've seen suggestions that Intuit themselves have had a hand in making the tax preparation process so complex that humans can't possibly get it right without them.
Still ridiculous I have to file them at all, but that's another thing to get into.