Showing posts with label State Taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State Taxes. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

File Free IDAHO individual income taxes Online

Free Federal and State electronic filing for IDAHO State

While searching for online IDAHO state tax return preparation, find the link where software companies who are providing free services to file both FEDERAL and STATE taxes.

The state of Idaho has partnered with software developers and the IRS to provide selected groups of taxpayers with free electronic filing.

Below are the list of software developer who are providing Federal and State taxes both FREE (if you qualify). If you do not qualify, they will charge depending upon their offers. You can find out more information on Idaho state government website for the same.

Intuit

Intuit offers free tax preparation and e-filing of both federal and state tax returns with TurboTax Freedom EditionSM if in tax year 2009 you met at least one of the following requirements:
  • If you qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC),
  • If you earned $31,000 or less in adjusted gross income (AGI)
  • If you served active military duty,including reservists and National Guard members with a military W-2, and your AGI was $57,000 or less.

OnLine Taxes

OnLine Taxes offers free e-filing of both federal and state tax returns for all Idaho taxpayers age 20 or under.

Tax Hawk

TaxHawk offers free e-filing of your federal and state tax return with the following requirements:
  • Federal tax return : No Restrictions
  • State tax return : if you earned $20,000 or less in adjusted gross income (AGI).


TaxSlayer offers free e-filing of both state and federal tax returns. Taxpayers are eligible for free filing if their federal adjusted gross income (AGI) was less than $57,000 and they met any of the following requirements:
  • Aged 25 or younger or 65 or older.
  • Had a federal AGI of $10,000 or less regardless of age.
  • Qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC).
  • Served active duty military including reservists, National Guard, and Coast Guard members.
All above contents are taken from IDAHO government website. You can find the same offers on the related companies website. 

[Neither this website nor the Idaho Tax Commission does not endorse the following companies, products, or services. The companies listed on this page offer different levels of service, so you may want to look carefully at each provider to see which free filing offers you qualify for.]

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

File Your Louisiana State Taxes Free

Louisiana government provides free E-File services online.

While finding out the resources to file Louisiana Taxes find out the important information regarding online services provided by State government itself.

Below is the link to start your Louisiana state taxes with Louisiana Government website.

As per government website, requirenments to file Online taxes are simple and they are as below.

1. You must have filed an individual income tax return with the state of Louisiana for the 2004 tax year or later.
2. You must have to create an account to file your online LA Taxes. (Which you can create from above given link while preparing your state taxes.)

All information is taken from the link https://esweb.revenue.louisiana.gov/IndividualIncomeTax/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fIndividualIncomeTax%2fdefault.aspx

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

File your Indiana State Taxes - FREE

How to file your Indiana State Tax Return Free?

Indiana government supports I-File which allows you to efile your state taxes directly from Indiana government website.
Check out the link below for the Indiana Filers.


To use I–File, you must have to meet following criteria.
( https://secure.in.gov/apps/dor/ifile/2009/faq.jsp )
  • Have previously filed an individual income tax return with the State of Indiana.
  • Have the same legal name that you used last year to file your taxes with the State of Indiana.
If you meet all the above criteria, you are able to do your Indiana Tax return with free of charge on Indiana Government website.

All Information are taken from the Indiana website of revenue (www.in.gov).

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Prepare, Print and E-File your Ohio State Taxes Free

While surfing around on Ohio website, find the Government State tax website, who provides facility to prepare state taxes online and do print or e-file free of charge. Ohio state government supports various options to Taxpayer file their taxes such as I-FILE, E-Forms etc.

I-File [Fast, easy and secure] is the online program which let taxpayer to complete their tax return on Ohio State website and e-file their Ohio state taxes. Below is the Link to see the I-File offered webpage from the Ohio government website.


[Above link will redirect you to Ohio Government Website for IFILE.]

After registering yourself on the I-File, I-File wizard asks a series of questions. And based upon that it compiles a state or school district income tax and you can do print or E-file Ohio state tax return.

E-Forms is another option which let taxpayer to complete their state taxes free of cost. You can able to see and complete the forms in Adobe acrobat version (.PDF) file and will able to put the values directly into the form. It will do most of the math on the form. We can find out more information on below link.


[Above link will redirect you to Ohio Government Website for E-Forms option.]

And if you owe taxes, then you can have e-payment options available to pay your taxes by e-check or credit card on Ohio website.

[The above content is taken from the Ohio government website. Referral link will be http://tax.ohio.gov/divisions/communications/electronic_filing_options.stm]

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Calculate Oregon State Taxes-Tax Calculator

I was searching through Oregon state government website and found interactive tool which let us to calculate our Oregon State taxes before filing state tax return.

It is very basic functionality by Oregon Government which almost every tax software provides. But this basic functionality becomes more important when you are cross verifying your taxes or estimating your tax planning for future purpose. Just handy tool to calculate in which income tax bracket you are falling in.

Below is the link to calculate the Oregon taxes by Oragon Government.



Provide Tax Income and Filing status on given option and calculate on “Find my tax rate” button. It will redirect a new page showing your tax amount.

This is very simple functionality and gives an idea about the Tax return. If you have some addition and subtraction regarding your state taxes, you able to figure out the estimated amount as refund or due.

If you are filing your tax return online or by your own or using any software this tool helps you decide whether you created the right tax return or not.

[Generally this tool is based upon the Taxable Income and the filing status combination. So amount is calculated on above condition with reference to the State Tax rates or State Tax Table.]

Please comment if you have any suggestions regarding this article.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

File Your Simple California State Tax Return Free. Prepare, Print or E-File

California government supports the facility like ReadyReturn to prepare a simple tax return with ease of use on government website.

ReadyReturn :

ReadyReturn is a free service developed by California Government (FTB) to make filing individual income tax returns easier. It uses information the state already has from the last return you filed and from your Form W-2 to pre-fill a California state tax return.
If you are single and your income is only from wages, you may qualify for ReadyReturn. It simplifies the filing process by pre-filling a tax return with information the state already has.
 



 
To qualify, you must have filed a 2008 California resident Tax return with:
  1. Single or head of household filing status.
  2. Income only from wages.
  3. No more than five dependents.
  4. No credits other than the renter’s credit.
  5. Standard deduction.
In 2009, you must have had only one employer. Taxpayers who can be claimed as a dependent on another person’s tax return qualify for ReadyReturn.

Just follow the state website link and check it out whether you are qualify for readyreturn or not.


You can directly E-file your California state tax return to government or can take a print for future purpose.