Taxes are prefilled in Estonia also, you can see all of the information on the webpage, and in case of a home loan or investments, you can send that information to the tax form from a bank site with one click. If you're married you can file joint tax. And thats it.
The whole process takes about 10 minutes, the deductibles are calculated and returned quite quickly, this year I was returned about 100euros, mostly because of my daughters dance lessons that are exempt of tax.
I dont see the reason people try to defend TurboTax here, yes, taxes are more complicated in US, but still, government does the same calculations anyway, have the same data anyway. Why not do this automatically. And if government wants to screw you, well, then I dont belive that turbotax or alternatives could help you anyway.
On my Estonian tax return last year, I had to declare overseas income too, and was impressed that it even did the exchange rate calculations at the relevant dates for me.
The whole process takes about 10 minutes, the deductibles are calculated and returned quite quickly, this year I was returned about 100euros, mostly because of my daughters dance lessons that are exempt of tax.
I dont see the reason people try to defend TurboTax here, yes, taxes are more complicated in US, but still, government does the same calculations anyway, have the same data anyway. Why not do this automatically. And if government wants to screw you, well, then I dont belive that turbotax or alternatives could help you anyway.