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Electronic Filing

Filing Individual Income Taxes Online

If you choose to e-file, you must file both your federal and state return electronically and file them at the same time.
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Note: The Idaho State Tax Commission does not endorse the following companies, products, or services. The companies listed on this page offer different levels of service, so you may want to shop around. If you have technical difficulties while using these products, please contact that company's help desk or technical support.
Free Electronic Filing
The state of Idaho has partnered with software developers and the IRS to provide selected groups of taxpayers with free electronic filing.  To see if you qualify for free filing, please read the information below and click on the company name to view their software.

Intuit
Intuit offers free tax preparation and e-filing of both federal and state tax returns with TurboTax Freedom EditionSM if in tax year 2008 you met at least one of the following requirements: you qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), you earned $30,000 or less in adjusted gross income (AGI), or you served active military duty, including reservists and National Guard members with a military W-2, and your AGI was $56,000 or less.

OnLine Taxes
OnLine Taxes offers free e-filing of both federal and state tax returns for all Idaho taxpayers age 20 or under.

TaxHawk
TaxHawk offers free e-filing of your federal and state tax return with the following requirements: federal tax return no restrictions, and your state tax return if you earned $20,000 or less in adjusted gross income (AGI).

TaxSlayer
 TaxSlayer offers free e-filing of both state and federal tax returns. Taxpayers are eligible for free filing if their federal adjusted gross income (AGI) was less than $56,000 and they met any of the following requirements: aged 25 or younger or 68 or older, or had a federal AGI of $10,000 or less regardless of age, or qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), or served active duty military including reservists, National Guard, and Coast Guard members.


Electronic Filing For a Fee
If you do not qualify for free filing, you may want to review offers from software companies that charge a fee for electronically filing a federal and state return.  Different companies offer different levels of service.  Some charge for a state return and file the federal return for free, while others file a free state return if you pay for the federal return.  Others charge for both

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