UsTaxes is an open source tax filing application that can be used to file the Federal 1040 form. It is different from paid tax preparation software in that it protects user privacy and is provided for free. It is available in both web and desktop formats
Most income information from the following forms are supported:
- W2
- 1099-INT
- 1099-DIV
- 1099-B
So far this project can attach the following schedules to form 1040:
- Schedule B
- Schedule D
Users who only have wage income and live in the below states should be able to file taxes using this site, since they do not have state level income tax.
- Alaska
- Tennessee
- Wyoming
- Florida
- New Hampshire
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Washington
- Nevada
The site is client side only. Data is persisted to the site's localstorage so no personal information ever leaves the user's computer. For those who want extra security, the codebase can also be built as a desktop application.
Thank you for taking the time to contribute, let's make tax filing free for everyone! 🎉
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This application can be either run as a web application or a standalone desktop application.
To run, npm start or yarn start.
To run, npm run desktop or yarn run desktop. This requires rust and cargo to be available on PATH. To avoid a browser window being spawned in addition to the desktop window, just set the BROWSER environment variable as in: BROWSER=none npm run desktop or BROWSER=none yarn desktop.
To release, run npm run desktop-release or yarn desktop-release. This will produce executables for your current environment.