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I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won

This is a story about how I overpaid my 2021 taxes due to an error in TurboTax and spent nearly three years trying to recover...

I looked closer at the actual tax forms TurboTax produces and sends to the IRS(the PDF) and found that the numbers were wrong. I considered hiring legal representation or a tax professional, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worthwhile yet – I figured they probably couldn’t do anything, and their fees might cut significantly into the $12K I was trying to recover. The US is one of the only countries in the world where people have to report their own income to the government every year (and a big reason for that is the companies like TurboTax that make so much money from it).

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