Free federal and state for simple returns. Honest prices that never change once you've started. An assistant that reads your documents instead of asking you to type them. And a licensed accounting practice one click away when you want a human.
Snap a W-2, drop in a 1099, upload your broker's year-end PDF. We read every box and show you what we read, side by side with the document. You confirm — the AI never writes a number to your return on its own.
Tick what happened this year and that's the entire interview. No spouse questions if you're single, no rental screens if you don't own one. Your refund updates on every keystroke, and it's computed by the same engine that files.
We run every check the IRS runs, score your audit risk with the records to keep, and list the money you're leaving behind. Then you sign and we file — federal and state.
Six changes apply to the return you're about to file. Every one of them is already in our engine, with its phase-out, and we ask the question that unlocks it rather than waiting for you to know it exists.
Up to $25,000 of qualified tips comes off your taxable income — whether or not you itemise.
Up to $12,500 of overtime premium pay ($25,000 on a joint return) is deductible for the first time.
An extra $6,000 per person aged 65 or over, on top of the standard deduction.
Up to $10,000 of interest on a new US-assembled vehicle, for personal use, is now deductible.
Four times the old cap. If you gave up on itemising because of the $10,000 limit, run it again.
The child tax credit went up, and up to $1,700 of it per child is refundable.
Every one of these exists because the alternative is a self-filer guessing, and a guess on a tax return is expensive in both directions.
Every account here is a real client file inside a working accounting practice. Ask for a human and a preparer opens your actual return — not a script-reading agent who can't see your data.
Standard deduction, brackets, the new 2025 deductions for tips, overtime and seniors — each figure traces to the revenue procedure or the section of law it comes from. Tap any line to see why it is what it is.
Not a chatbot reading a help page. Ask “why is my refund smaller than last year?” and it answers from your actual documents and your actual numbers, tells you which file it got that from, and says plainly when it doesn't know.
Mileage nobody logged. The home office. A SEP-IRA that's still open until April. The saver's credit. Each one priced in real dollars at your marginal rate, with a button that adds it.
A score with the reasons spelled out and the exact records to keep for each one. We will never talk you out of a deduction you're entitled to — we'll tell you what to file with it.
Everything you upload stays in your account, year after year, so “send me a copy of my 2025 return” is a download rather than a phone call. We don't sell your data and we don't train anything on your tax documents.
| Taxmint | TurboTax | H&R Block | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple federal return | Free | Free tier, then upgrades | Free tier, then upgrades |
| State return | Included at every tier | Extra per state | Extra per state |
| Price changes mid-return | Never — the quote is locked | Common | Common |
| Itemising, investments, rentals | $39–$69 | $89–$139 + state | $70–$115 + state |
| Self-employed | $89 | $139+ + state | $115+ + state |
| AI reads your own documents | Yes, with citations | Partial | Partial |
| Audit risk report with records to keep | Included | Paid add-on | Paid add-on |
| A licensed preparer on your file | $79, optional | $130–$220 | $90–$200 |
| Every figure cites the law | Yes | No | No |
Competitor pricing reflects published list prices for the 2025 filing season and changes during it; check their sites for current figures. Ours is on one page and does not move once your return is started.
Schedule C, mileage, the home office, quarterly estimates set up for next year, and a bank link that categorises the whole year for you.
See what's includedForm 8949 from a broker CSV, cost-basis reconstruction, wash-sale flags, carryovers tracked year to year, and gain — never proceeds — on the return.
See what's included1120-S, 1065 and 1120 with K-1s for every owner, M-1 reconciliation, basis tracking, and a licensed preparer signing off.
See what's includedIf our calculation causes an IRS or state penalty or interest charge, we pay it. The maths is deterministic and tested — this is a promise we can afford to make.
We compute standard and itemised every time, test every credit you qualify for, and show you the money you haven't claimed yet with the amount it's worth.
A licensed preparer can open your actual return, not a summary of it. Review before you file is $79, and it's optional, always.
Yes, and it includes your state return. A W-2, unemployment, bank interest, the standard deduction, the child tax credit, the earned income credit and the new 2025 tips, overtime and senior deductions all file at no cost. We tell you the price on the first screen, and it does not move once you've started.
Send it to us. Your return, your documents and the reasoning behind every figure are all on file, so a response is a matter of pulling the record rather than reconstructing it. Audit defence — three years of correspondence and representation — is $39.
It is deterministic and it is pinned by tests to hand-worked examples. The AI reads documents and explains results; it never decides a number that goes on a return. Every table cites the revenue procedure or the section of law it comes from, and we publish that citation on your return package.
Yes. Upload last year's return as a PDF and we read your prior-year AGI, your carryovers and your dependants out of it. The capital-loss carryover alone is the number people most often lose when they switch — we pick it up.
Yes — 1120-S, 1065 and 1120, with K-1s generated for every owner and a licensed preparer on the file. That tier is $249 and includes the bookkeeping review that makes the return possible.
The practice behind Taxmint transmits it on its own IRS authorisation. You'll see the submission ID and the IRS acknowledgement in your account. State returns are prepared here and reviewed by a licensed preparer before they're filed.
Start now, stop whenever, come back to exactly where you left off. Nothing is charged until you file, and for most people nothing is charged at all.