UsTaxes is a free open source tax filing application that can be used to file the Federal 1040 form. It is available in both web and desktop versions. It is provided free of charge and requires no sharing of personal data.
Most income and deduction information from the following forms are supported for tax years 2020 and 2021.
- W2
- 1099-INT
- 1099-DIV
- 1099-B
- 1098-E
- 1099-R: support for normal distributions from IRA and pension accounts.
- SSA-1099
So far, this project can attach the following schedules to form 1040:
- Schedule 1 (as to Schedule E and 1098-E data only)
- Schedule 3 (as to excess FICA tax only)
- Schedule 8812
- Schedule B
- Schedule D
- Schedule E
- Credit for children and other dependents
- Earned income credit
The states below have been implemented partially. See the /src/stateForms/<state>/<relevant form> file for details on unimplemented portions.
- Illinois
Users who only have wage income and live in the states below should be able to file taxes using this site, since they do not have state level income tax.
- Alaska
- Florida
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Washington
- Wyoming
- This project is built by a growing community. If you notice an error in the outputted PDF or any other error, please submit an issue on the Github issues tab. We appreciate your feedback!
The project is available strictly via client side. 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 run as either a web application or a standalone desktop application.
To run, npm run start or yarn start.
If preferred, a Docker alternative is available:
docker-compose build
docker-compose up
Then, open a browser to http://localhost:3000.
To stop and remove running containers, run docker-compose down.
To run, npm 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.
To release, run npm run desktop-release or yarn desktop-release. This will produce executables for your current environment.