Prepare your return.
Easy. Private.

Defender Tax Solution prepares your federal return for you.
All you have to do is submit it.

Know where Defender fits.

Defender has two preparation modes, plus an optional state layer:

  • Simple handles personal federal returns.
  • Power adds one business.
  • State is an optional Pennsylvania layer available in either mode.

Pick the mode that matches your return. Not sure which? The built-in Guide can help you choose. Defender Tax Solution is in active development, and coverage grows with every release.

SimplePersonal federal returns

For individuals and couples with wages, investment and retirement income, and common credits.

  • Filing status: Single, Married Filing Jointly, Head of Household, Married Filing Separately, and Qualifying Surviving Spouse.
  • Income: W-2 wages, 1099-INT interest, 1099-DIV dividends, 1099-B investment sales, Social Security (SSA-1099), and pension and traditional IRA distributions (1099-R).
  • Deductions: standard deduction with age, blind and senior additions, or itemized mortgage interest, points and property tax — Defender compares both and picks the better one.
  • Credits: Child Tax Credit and Other Dependent Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, and the American Opportunity Tax Credit.
  • Refund: direct deposit straight to your bank account.

PowerEverything in Simple, plus one business

For sole proprietors and owners of a small S corporation or partnership.

  • Schedule C: a cash-method business with 1099-NEC or manual revenue, expenses, inventory, contractors, a standard-mileage vehicle, self-employment tax, QBI and estimated payments.
  • S corporation: a single-owner corporation. Defender prepares the 1120-S with payroll reconciliation, distributions, basis, owner benefits and equipment, then the owner's personal return.
  • Partnership: a partnership with 2–10 individual partners. Defender prepares the 1065 and K-1s, then a partner's personal return.
  • K-1 income: Box 1 income from a 1065 or 1120-S K-1 you received.

StatePennsylvania, in either mode

For full-year Pennsylvania residents.

  • Personal: PA-40 returns for W-2 income, including joint returns and dependents, with Schedule SP Tax Forgiveness when you qualify.
  • Business: PA Schedule C, plus the PA business forms and RK-1s for an S corporation or partnership prepared in Power.
  • Worker credit: if you qualify for the federal EITC, Defender estimates your Pennsylvania worker credit and reminds you how to claim it.
Not yet supported
  • Rental property income and digital-asset transactions.
  • Business losses, employees, home-office deductions and multiple businesses on one return.
  • Rollovers, Roth conversions and early retirement distributions.
  • States other than Pennsylvania, part-year returns and local earned-income tax.

Download for Windows.

Download the Defender Tax Solution installer. This is the beta version. We're still building it, so stay tuned for updates.

Defender Tax Solution Setup

System
Windows 10/11, 64-bit
Size
To be confirmed