TurboTax Home & Business Federal + e-File + State 2010 - [Old Version]
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William S. Cherry
> 3 dayFor many years we used a CPA to prepare our tax returns. A few years ago, one of them was audited by the IRS. While it totally passed muster, as I knew it would, it cost us $2,000 for the CPA to represent us. Nonsense, I said. Im an excellent record keeper, Ill admit. So I figured if the TurboTax was user friendly, I would be home free. And on top of that, for an extra 50 bucks or so, TurboTax will represet you in an IRS audit. Perfect. So for the last four years, Ive used TurboTax. Its easy enough if you take your time and you pay attention to each question it asks you.
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RSlater
Greater than one weekWhen it comes to taxes, it is an anxiety attack! It is nice to have a product that begins to set you at ease after just a few entries have been completed. A very intuitive and through process is accomplished when you finally hit the complete button and see your results. Even though it might say you owe at least youre assured that a good job was done!!
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Bohemiana
Greater than one weekIve used TurboTax quite a few times over the years, then tried two expensive accountants for a few years, and came back to TurboTax for 2010. I noticed potential bugs with self-employment health insurance and car depreciation that I had to go onto a forum to get some info about, which was a hassle, but otherwise the program is pretty easy to use. I must say, I do wonder if I am getting all my deductions but I guess thats the risk I take by spending $79 instead of $1500 with my old accountant. (My accountant really is the one who caused me to come back to TurboTax by giving my referrals to him a much better deal to do their taxes than he was giving me. Bad business.)
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Christian
Greater than one weekTurboTax makes a very complicated process easy. It takes you through entering tax data step by step in a simplified manner, and provides tips and advice each step along the way. Then it calculated your tax, choosing the right forms and making decisions about the best way to complete the forms, when there is more than one way to do so. I recommend Turbo Tax for simple to moderately complex returns. (I think you will be money ahead to have highly complex returns reviewed by a professional - no $79 computer program is going to outwit a trained professional.) One word of caution - the TurboTax front cover says Includes Federal and State Taxes. What it means is that TurboTax fills out the state forms. There is a substantial extra charge (about $40) for efiling the state form (Federal efiling is free). Of course, you can always send in the state return by regular US mail.
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Jim Hogsett
> 3 dayI have used Turbo Tax for several years and it is an excellent product. They make it so easy for entering your tax data from tax forms and they do the rest of the work through placing it on required tax forms. (However, do not use the download version even though this costs considerably less than the disk. I have seen many complaints about technical problems in downloading the progrqam.) If you will use this product instead of an accountant, you WILL save lots of money which is left for YOU to use!
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Kartika Anando
> 3 dayIn past years Turbo Tax was tedious, because the wizard process requires repetition of like 10 questions to revise a single entry, but otherwise smooth. This year, however, there are lots of annoying glitches. My version on Windows 7 crashed about 10 times as I was doing my returns, so if you use this I would suggest saving frequently. Also, there seem to be too many bugs this far into in the tax season. For example, a figure entered in the wizard incorrectly appears as 0 (zero) in the income summary page, but is reflected correctly on the (printed) forms. After dealing with all the crashes and bugs, I wasnt able to e-file due to the following error. There is an update available for your version of Turbo Tax. Before you can file electronically, youll need to get this update. To do this, go to the Online menu and select Check for Updates. However, when I check for updates the Updater says, Your software is up to date. There are lots of questions about this on the TT Live Community, so I dont think it was specific to my situation. I suspect they will resolve it before April, but it seems like they should test their products more thoroughly before shipping them out.
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Rebecca L. Walker
Greater than one weekI am a last minute tax preparer - and I am both self employed and have a regular job, so the number of forms, etc... can get ridiculous. So my moto has been never do today what you can put off until tomorrow when it comes to the IRS and taxes. This year Tax time seemed to rush up on me. I looked at all my receipts, records, etc... and it was all too much. So on impulse I decided to try Turbo Tax. It was quick, easy to use, found deductions I had never even heard of (imagine how much I have been over paying - wince!), and wonderfully cheaper to purchase at amazon. And wala!!! I was done 2 days early! Better and cheaper than some tax preparer companies I have been to even. Loved It - will be using Turbo Tax all the time from now on. I recommend you try it as well. R Walker
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Steve Zilis
> 3 dayGot an IRS extension, Turbo Tax nowhere to be found in retail locations even though I needed it fast. Got it faster than promised in about 2 days with regular shipping at about 33% lower price than the $99.95 at the stores even including the shipping charge! Thanks.
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Smurf
> 3 dayI worked for IRS for 27 years.....and TurboTax (Intuit) is by far the best tax software on the market. The others are just trying to keep up. I always recommend TurboTax to my friends when they ask me tax questions. TT is the most reliable, accurate and easy to use of the home tax preparation software products.
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Charles
> 3 dayAmazon always has the lowest prices on the products they sell. I was watching the prices on Turbo Tax home and business software because that is what I have been using for the past 6-7 years to do my taxes. I was waiting for Office Depot and Staples to bring their price down on this product but when I saw the price that Amazon was selling Turbo Tax for I had to get it. I just knew that the other stores could not match the Amazon price for such a great product. Turbo Tax is a great product that is easy to use and you can ask for help on anything you have trouble with - easy and on-line.
