How do I file taxes 2 years late on the cheap?
If you’re eligible to use it, 1040EZ lives up to its name. 15-30 minutes to done, easy and free. Requirements from 2003 instructions: • Your filing status is single or married filing jointly. • You (and your spouse if married filing jointly) were under age 65 and not blind at the end of 2003. If you were born on January 1, 1939, you are considered to be age 65 at the end of 2003. • Your taxable income (line 6) is less than $50,000. • You do not claim any dependents. • You do not claim a deduction for educator expenses, the student loan interest deduction, or the tuition and fees deduction. • You do not claim an education credit, the retirement savings contributions credit, or the health coverage tax credit. • You had only wages, salaries, tips, taxable scholarship or fellowship grants, unemployment compensation, or Alaska Permanent Fund dividends, and your taxable interest was not over $1,500. • You did not receive any ad
You have three years from the filing deadline for a tax year to file if you do not owe money. After that, your refund goes into some governmental black hole, never to be seen again. As for tax filing products, TurboTax allows you to buy products from previous tax years. I don’t know if the other software vendors do, but I’d assume so. I don’t know if you can e-file a prior year’s return, but the software will help you input everything and print out a nice, tidy tax form for you to mail in.
Here is a list of free-file websites from the IRS. I don’t know which of them meet your conditions but it shouldn’t be hard to go down them and see. My guess is you will have to file plain old paper forms for the last year and deal with any fines, etc. Then you can file for free this year, especially since you seem to be low income.
