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turbotax is snapped axe is an innovative app for tax preparation on the go here's how it works install the app snap a photo of your w-2 fill out some pretty standard questions and then you're done you can even file both your state and federal returns directly and securely from your smartphone and is ideal for people with the simplest returns those without children who don't own property and with incomes less than a hundred thousand dollars a year another big-name H&R Block has also gotten into the mobile game you can't use their free app to prepare your taxes but it does offer other useful tools for one a tax estimator so you can have a rough idea how much money will be getting back orrow also monitor the status of your federal return once it's filed finally the US government's free download IRS to go is more of an information hub than a toolkit for preparing and filing but there are a few useful features you can monitor your refund status or even order old tax records to be mailed to you in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News