Previous year returns can not be electronically filed, they must be mailed in. You can access prior year forms from the IRS website
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98339,00.html
2007-06-01 13:00:48
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answered by Anonymous
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There's not even an EXPENSIVE way to file your 2005 return online. Only current years returns can be done online - the IRS does not accept online filing of prior year returns, so you'll have to file it on paper. But yes, you can still have your refund direct deposited.
2007-06-01 16:13:50
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answered by Judy 7
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The second answer said the IRS will calculate your taxes with perfect accuracy. Even if that were true, they would make any choices available in the manner that MAXIMIZES your tax due.
Every year several companies submit hypothetical taxes cases to large numbers of IRS personnel. They ALWAYS get back as many different results as the number of IRS people they survey.
2007-06-01 13:48:57
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answered by STEVEN F 7
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Dallas, supply the data to an earnings tax preparer. now and back the previous adage works, you get what you pay for. extraordinarily being so far at the back of, you could supply the data to somebody who has adventure and could paintings via each and all the themes of a tax return.
2016-12-18 11:14:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. Contact the IRS on-line. A surprising number of people don't know that the IRS will figure our income tax for you free of charge. They will do it with perfect accuracy, and will be conscientious about preventing you from either over-paying or under-paying.
"The Free File program is a free federal tax preparation and electronic filing program for eligible taxpayers developed through a partnership between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Free File Alliance LLC, a group of private sector tax software companies. Since Free File’s debut in 2003, more than 15.4 million returns have been prepared and e-filed through the program. Free File allows taxpayers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $52,000 or less in 2006 to e-file their federal tax returns for free. That means 70 percent of all taxpayers – 95 million taxpayers – can take advantage of the Free File program."-- IRS e-file information on file on the Internet.
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Steven F. disputes my answer, and, though I know I am right on the main point of the question-- that the IRS WILL figure it free-- Steven made some real points of his own.
If your sources of income, and the tax rules regarding them, are as varied and complex as mine once were, you probably need more aggressive tax avoidance than provided by the IRS. "Tax avoidance" is avoiding making payments you are not required to make legally. No reputable tax preparer will assist you in tax EVASION, which is not paying taxes you legitimately owe.
But, for people with ordinary wage income, tax preparation is pretty simple. Even a high school drop-out with a few weeks training who can add and subtract, multiply and divide, could probably do short-form on ordinary wages and salary, so, logically, a professional employed by the IRS is not apt to make many mistakes.
With no more complex tax issues to deal with-- being on retirement income and low-wage part-time work-- I doubtless would be safe to let the IRS figure my taxes now, but I won't, because there's an inherent mistrust there that I can't overcome. I know former IRS agents that are plain folks, but letting them do my taxes would FEEL like the chicken breeder felt that time when, according to the tall tale, an applicant named "Wiley B. Coyote" showed up to answer his ad for chicken farm manager.
"Don't worry about me eating your chickens, I only eat road-runners," the talking coyote told the farmer, but the farmer replied, "Hit the road, dog, before your dinner runs away. My hen house don't need no more coyote help than we've already got!"
No IRS help needed on my taxes. I usually figure my own, but at least getting a second opinion from a professional tax preparer is sensible if in doubt. My tax prep training is getting out of date, so I'm going to quit figuring my own next year, because the tax preparer's fee is less than it would to cost to update the training.
Might even try out the IRS, even through I don't trust them any more with my meager taxes than I would trust a squid offering liposuction. But I'd like to try the IRS once, just to find out if they really suck eggs and steal chickens.
2007-06-01 13:32:59
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answered by John (Thurb) McVey 4
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