DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME.
Used to be a good service
Do Not Use
Best assisted tax app I’ve used
Great service
People are knowledgeable and so responsive. If you have tax questions and need an answer or need help doing anything tax wise these are the people to use.
Another year using!
1 star for terrible signing
While the guys who did my tax return was good, I will never use your app again just because of the amount frustration I have now.
If zero stars was an option, I would have selected it.
Extremely incompetent!
Stay away.
I’m waiting 4 weeks so far without even a single substantive message from my tax pro. No ETA, no guarantee they’ll even do my taxes. I didn’t exactly wait until the last minute — I started 6 weeks before the tax deadline.
Taxfyle says they’re the Uber of taxes, and they’re right. Have you ever had an Uber Eats driver flake out on you, you don’t have your food, all the restaurants are closed. It’s hard to get customer service, and all they can do is refund your money. You’re screwed.
Taxfyle says your taxes will be done in a week, or 2 days if you pay extra. Those estimates mean nothing. Taxfyle’s policies say they’re nothing but a referral service. Their job is over once you’ve gotten a tax pro. Neither they nor you have any power over the tax pro.
They could take a year. And then you might want to cancel and go somewhere else. But you can’t, because Taxfyle’s refund policy charges you a large cancellation fee for having done nothing for you.
Just like with Uber, Taxfyle’s tax pros are part-time consultants. They have a full time job doing accounting work for their real paying repeat customers, who get priority. They can reject a job at any time, and take as long as they want to do it. You’re stuck.
You’re better off finding a good CPA and checking out their reviews, instead of someone being chosen for you at random. It probably won’t be any more expensive, either, and with them you’ll have a paid client/pro relationship.
Wow!
Absolutely horrendous!
Basically I paid them, they did NOT do their job, ROBBED me of my money, never gave me a refund and never found me a new accountant. Horrible service, horrible software.
DO NOT USE
Very helpful
Just ok
Second year using, won’t be a third
And to be clear, the messages these people weren’t responding to were things like “Hi, nice to meet you! Should I include X form?” and “can please you explain what this term means?” Nothing demanding or rude.
The second person did file my taxes, but made several mistakes and at one point said “I think this is probably fine. We’ll see.”
For the convenience, I decided to use the app again this year. Once again whoever is preparing my taxes doesn’t answer questions in a timely way.
For $200+, I expect some bare minimum level of service. I also don’t appreciate entrusting my most sensitive person data to a company that doesn’t explain why my first tax preparer took a look at my documents and then seemingly dropped off the face of the earth.
The app also seems prone to lagging and occasionally refuses to allow text to be inputted in the chat field.
Poor quality service and a privacy threat
First of all, the quality of the service was very mediocre at best. I decided to go with taxfyle so that I don’t have to spend time calculating my taxes. I ended up pointing out a ton of mistakes which their “certified” CPA had made in my tax return.
But after they filed my taxes, I started receiving a lot of fraudulent emails with very specific details from my tax return. Today I got yet another fraudulent physical letter (I confirmed this with IRS) with very exact amounts of taxes owed, withheld and payable. I don’t see how that data could’ve been obtained if not from Taxfyle. They filed my taxes electronically and I never sent actual tax return via mail.
I would like to warn everyone about potential data privacy risks if you file your taxes with this service. I can not be 100% certain that they are the source of a leak, but the fact that I received so many fraudulent attempts to get more taxes out of me after I used their service is a good indication that their security has wholes.
Avoid using this - it’s a total rip-off
2.) I deleted the app given I did n out get a response and I got external services
3.) Got ~1k in Taxes back. After, I got an invoice from taxfyle for 200 saying my taxes are ready ; super late and the form asked me to pay 3k in taxes (vs. 1k return from a decent CPA)
Conclusion: it’s a waste of time , slow, and unprofessional. You will end up paying more in taxes and waiting forever. Also customer services declined my request of a refund. I would never use this again. Stay away and use something else
