Specifically, they contend that filing costs raise artificial barriers to entry and that the publication of rates facilitates parallel pricing and stifles price competition.
The online Deluxe version includes free e-filing and costs $29.95 for federal filing only (state filing costs $29.95 extra).
What is more, if the estate does not file a tax return, then when the return is ultimate filed, the cost base for the estate will be zero.
For both programs I tried, state e-files cost $19.95 each.
It's common sense; why should a digital file cost as much as a physical object, manufactured and shipped?
He never knew what the files cost him, professionally, but in 1962, for instance, an expected appointment to the Federal Communications Commission inexplicably evaporated.
But advocates of digital downloading will point to the fact that while CDs are physical objects that have to be manufactured and shipped, digital files cost exactly the same price to deliver anywhere.
Music files cost users between a dime and a dollar; a 30-day movie license runs up to $4.
The much-loved 90s TV series where FBI agents probe the paranormal, The X Files cost $1.5m per episode for the first five series, according to IMDB.
The litigation, which has been stayed because of the bankruptcy filing, cost Sonicblue as much as $1 million a month, contributing to a loss last quarter of $33.4 million on $67 million in sales.
