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# How to File Taxes from Your Smartphone or Tablet

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## Video: How to File Taxes from Your Smartphone or Tablet

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_Published 2011-04-01. Tax prep? There's an app for that. Several, actually. Find out how to file your taxes this year with the swipe of a finger on your iPhone or iPad._


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## Transcript

It's April. Taxes coming up. Nobody panic. You don't even need a computer this year. Intuit, makers of TurboTax, [ unk ] video demos of their iPad, iPhone, Android apps. Before we get to those, I'm wondering if you could just indulge me for a quick second. I have some last minute deductions I need to take myself. And I figured, if I show some items here on video, I can technically claim them as work- related expenses. Do you mind? Deduction, deduction. This will take some time to work on my music. Guess that normally gives us deduction. Oh, jackpot. Deduction, deduction, deduction. Computer, computer, computer, computer, computer, computer, computer, computer.

One more. Deduction. Thank you very much. Now, we take a look at TurboTax for iPad. This is very much like a fully- featured version of TurboTax like you find on the web but for the iPad. TurboTax provide catalog to anybody who owns an iPad, who use TurboTax with a rich, new interface that they know of from their iPad. But this allows people the mobility to use their iPad on the couch and when they're not connected for the advantage that you can't own an iPad, and we give them the ability to do things like having the right people at the right time depending on the data that they're entering. Gives you everything that you have on a web- based purpose.

[ unk ] add a few touches so we know [ unk ]. [ unk ] simple filers don't have to worry about deductions or math. This is SnapTax for iPhone, also available on Android. You take a picture of your W2, [ unk ] some blanks and that's pretty much it. Must be nice. Must be nice.

>> This is SnapTax, the first start to finish tax [ unk ] app. You first start off by just snapping at Photo View W2. So, we click it, send it over to [ unk ] and they start decoding it at that point in time. But for some reason you needed to go in there, you added something, no problem. A few other things, pieces of information like with the application? How'd you like the file? And [ unk ]. You go in and just preview return. They'll give you a high level summary of it. If you prefer to actually can have a copy of it, you email it to yourself. And then, at that point, you're ready [ unk ]. Everything's done from your cell phone.

>> So, there you have it. Don't have any computer, not even leaving the couches tax season deduction, deduction. Those apps are free to download. [ unk ] tax done this-

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