You may have noticed people are losing sleep and grumbling while they are attempting to get ready for tax time.  Filing online has become common place but what about filing from a mobile phone? Many of the IRS and tax websites use Flash and are too large for a small phone screen. iPhone owners who want to file will have it easier, but only in California. SnapTax is an IPhone app that allows CA residents with simple returns to e- file a federal and state return right from their iPhone in minutes. Instead of entering W-2 forms by hand, users can take of photo of the forms. SnapTax uses optical character recognition (OCR) software to allow you to prepare and e-file federal and state returns entirely from your iPhone. It's simple.  In fact, you can file your taxes in just three easy steps:  Snap a photo of your 2009 W-2 with Read More

Tax season is upon us, and the iPhone is here to take the sting out of Uncle Sam’s April chore. The current arsenal of App Store software is useful for both simple and complex tax processes, and is generally cheaper than desktop equivalents. While there are a variety of tax-related apps by independent developers, the major players in the App Store market are also the star gladiators vying for dominance in the e-commerce market: Intuit (TurboTax) and H&R Block. Below is a run down of the three most sophisticated tax apps we found for the iPhone. For many filers, a simple W-2 won’t suffice. H&R Block offers free, human guidance for even the most complicated questions via its iPhone app, Tax Answers. To give it a test run, I asked a question about educational exemptions for Social Security taxes (something I’d been trying to figure out for a long time) and Read More

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