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TaxAct is out there again this year, entirely free, although the outfit behind it is trying to get people to buy the paid version by making the free version less prominent. Publication 17, the traditional IRS "everything" document for a personal tax return includes less and less every year. So it's not until it has been sent for by mail, located in a library branch, or downloaded in all its grandeur that the hapless taxpayer learns that yet other publications are required in addition, apparently more each year. So it's more and more difficult to get the big picture. And the IRS always sends forms and instructions through the mail based on last year's return, which never works here. So every year the return's different, every year I prepare it and K. checks it, and of late years, TaxAct double-checks it. I love TaxAct!