Reasons in favor of using TaxSlayer — or another of the IRS Free File Guided Tax Preparation Options — if you need to file US taxes and don't want to fill out the forms yourself:
free filing for federal taxes if you earn less than $73K a year; state taxes may be free as well depending on state
easy to use and relatively intuitive (as much as anything tax-related can be, anyway)
fills out the forms for you based on the information you enter, but you can still look the forms over before filing if you want to double-check
avoids giving money to the evil of TurboTax
no special software installation required; all you need is an internet browser
Reasons in favor of using TaxSlayer specifically:
whoever came up with the name was unequivocally a marketing genius
• you might not particularly want to DO your taxes, but I'm willing to bet you want to MURDER them
