I don't know why it's affordable, and in most instances, it's absolutely free. How do these tax prepare companies make any money if the majority of people who use them can file their taxes for less than $25? It's probably too much of a good thing and it won't last, but I recommend filing your taxes online at hrblock.com. I know tax time is over, thankfully, for another year, at least. But perhaps you are filing late because of an extension, or you just weren't happy with the services you paid for last time.
The website and interface are secure and it guides you through all the mundane and just plain boring steps to file your taxes probably in less than an hour if you have all your tax forms already gathered. Then, you can even file your taxes electronically and send it all to the IRS at the same time. Job finished. Go back to raking leaves or doing those other weekend tasks -- almost anything would be more fun, I'm sure you will agree!
If only taxes were pay-as-you-go and the income tax form was a simple post card with a basic mathematical formula. I guess that would be too predictable and help us all be more productive. Wouldn't that be the real American way? One can only dream that we will stop oppressing ourselves with a growing 19 million words of tax code and counting. Such lunacy, idiocy, complacency, bureaucracy -- and a lot of other words I could use that don't end in "cy". Good luck, my fellow Americans, we're all going to need it....
