Doortofreeside t1_j62fl7a wrote on January 27, 2023 at 5:49 AM

Reply to comment by Toby_The_Tumor in LPT: Do your own taxes to save money (sometimes FREE!), protect your personal information and stop supporting those companies that are lobbying against your best interest. by CN2498T

The dollar amount isn't really relevant. Did they do anything to increase his refund that your brother wouldn't have done anyway?

Toby_The_Tumor t1_j62fuyq wrote on January 27, 2023 at 5:52 AM

Both me and him have no idea with this stuff, I saw someone say he could've gotten 2k more, but 8k is still insane. So I couldn't say, he doesn't like to talk about his money unless he's complaining or asking for it. Is there anything they could've done to get him more?

Doortofreeside t1_j636sdr wrote on January 27, 2023 at 11:39 AM

Depends how well you do your taxes. I take the standard deduction and as such I don't see anything that they could do that would couldn't do myself with freetaxusa ($15). Sure having a kid opens up stuff like the child tax credit, the dependent care credit, and stuff like opening a dependent care FSA but that's stuff you'll get prompted on by a tax software once you say you have a kid