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TurboTax Home & Business Federal & State Returns + Federal E-File 2013 - Mac/Windows
Average Customer Rating:
4.5
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Customer Reviews for TurboTax Home & Business Federal & State Returns + Federal E-File 2013 - Mac/Windows
Customer Rating
5
Special situation improvement is needed
on April 11, 2014
Posted by: HRHYD
Great product and very easy to use. And very comprehensive.
But an improvement is needed. In my home I have one room dedicated for office space. I moved out of this home during the year and rented it out. I think all expenses including taxes paid, mortgage interest, insurance etc. needs to be distributed between rental period and personal living period.
I wish TurboTax recognizes my special scenario and automatically distributes the amounts correctly. But, I had do this manually, after realizing my mistake (per instructions, I entered full amount in all these forms). The existing comments are not completely clear.
What's great about it: Comprehensive and yet easy to use
What's not so great: Need improvement on special situations on home use
Any w-2 tax return can be done by anybody, even if you do not read that well. business taxes are easy also, except for the depreciation is a little harder to understand. I have been using turbo tax since 1995. I use to go to IRS and get lots of paperwork and read all the new rules etc. now I just plug in numbers where the program tells me to and its done, very very easy.
What's great about it: personal or business anyone that can read can do their own taxes
What's not so great: the depreciation sometimes throws me
When inputting all my info it went smoothly except for the taxed portion of my deceased husband's retirement pension. The taxed portion showed under regular income and not in the taxed section of the pension area of the tax return.
What's great about it: Interview process was amoth
What's not so great: Handling of taxed portion of retirement income confusing
sir: began using for several years and find turbo to be cheaper and not to painful to use. accuracy is good and totally acceptable by the feds. tried others once and found it to be poor and did not file and went and bought turbo that year and filed the returns. never left turbo since. honest. bob
Overall this was a really great product, which let me dig through and figure out how to do my own taxes in no particular order, and finding my best options.
There were still several spots where I was unable to figure out what the IRS was asking for and never could get an explanation... including at the very end when I got a flag saying they could not e-file until I corrected a term. But at that point the mystery resolved itself and I was still able to file.
Most similar circumstances had a button which took me to a concise explanation of what was being asked, and then links to the IRS website with even more details. Extremely helpful for a novice.
What's great about it: Easily let me go back and forth, adding new stuff as I found it
What's not so great: Still had some incomprehensible jargon
As a first time user the experience was better than I expected. In last years I have work with a tax advisor, and I never understood the process the way I do now.
The software is very stable, and allow you to easily switch from wizard mode, to deep-dive, to Tax form entry style. Initially I used the wizards, but shortly after the two other modes have been proving very handy.
The shortcomings I experienced are in reporting of financial account in foreign banks. Asking me to choose between random 4-digit number forms is basically putting the burden on me to understand such reporting, which is not inlined with the spirit of the product. I hope next year will be simpler.
What's great about it: Stable software, easy, comprehensive
What's not so great: Foreign support limited, require Taxing expertise