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For starters you'll want to got to Google and type in TurboTax
and this page will come up. Click on the first one which is TurboTax
You want to start for free
at this point you don't really need to do any of this but you can if you want to
and then press start for free here
You're going to need to create a user ID and password
and then sign in. You'll come to this page.
It's pretty easy and self explanatory after this
Hello, welcome back to turbo tax. Press the continue button. Since I have already been on the site I'll just continue with the 2013 taxes.
So, you can get off the website and go take care of your child or whatever you need to do and then come back to it because it saves all your
information.
Get started with turbo tax today
So, you would just type in your name.
and what do you do for a living
Did you serve in the U.S. armed forces
...active or reservist and all that.
Answer everything honestly. Your zip code...
state of residence
Just need to do this really quick
And then you want to do
Your birth date of course
Can anyone claim you as a dependent.This is a very important step. You will want to click
Click whatever is
applicable for you
applicable for you
Basically you are just answering all these questions
Basically you are just answering all these questions
for yourself . So, you are going to have to walk yourself through it.
Are you single? Are you married?
Let's say you're married.
Do you want to file this return together with your spouse? Lets say yes.
continue
What's your spouses name? So, You write that out.
And what does your spouse do for a living? Is your spouse in the military?
Anyways, the personal questions go on and on. None of it is hard- you just have to
Pay attention to the information.The great thing about turbo tax is it will check your facts for you and look for errors
So, lets just keep moving on. Press Continue. There is different things you can do for it but we want to start out doing the
working on your personal W2. You can go back and work on your spouses or anything else you need to do after that.
And then as you get to this point it's going to show you.
what you need to put in and where it is also
So, employer identification number. And then it shows you where on your W2 it is going to be. See the red box right here.
Now you are just going to basically
look at your W2 and in box 1 under wages, tips, and other put that into that box. Box 2 over here
Box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6 and just do every single box. This is just where you work and the address, phone number and all that.
So, after you fill out all that information that is basically straight from your W2 you are going to press continue.
Because my box is empty it won't lest us continue right now. So, we are going to go to state taxes.
So, TurboTax will transfer the information that you plug into the Federal tax return information right into your state.
And so that makes it a little easier. Less tedious.
Read through it and then once you've read through it press continue. If you know that you have more complicated stuff then you may want
to go the long form route.
But if yours is pretty easy then you can go ahead and do the short form.
So, just read each question and answer as truthfully as possible.
fill it in
basically this is going to ask you a bunch of questions that are similar to ones in the personal
information and Federal taxes.It's just trying to get to know what kind of questions to ask.
So, basically just answer all these questions and press continue. TurboTax will do all the work for you.
after you fill in both the state and Federal information you'll go to
the review button and this is basically going to show you everything altogether.
of the information that you put in.
So, obviously it's going to find errors in this one because I didn't actually fill out the stuff. So,
it's going to tell you that we recommended you make corrections before you print your return
Obviously that would say that for this one I am doing right now because I am not actually filling it in
But, if you filled it in TurboTax would actually will check your form for any errors that might come. And then over here on the left side of your
screen
It will actually estimate how much Federal refund it thinks you will get and then how much California refund you will get or whatever your
state is.
and then it will have a finalize report as well that you can print out. Here is the print center.
You can Efile online through this program as well. Federal taxes are completely free online.
so that's pretty much everything you need to know about the TurboTax online. It really is quite easy. They have a great set up. You should try it
out.