Great software, as always. I've used TurboTax for many years and am always pleased with how they improve it. I especially like the ability to move around the return and enter stuff as I need to.
What's great about it: Easy to use and reenter over time
I had some none-Major Improvements that still had depreciation available that I was not able to enter, or the program didn't make it clear that where I could have.
What's great about it: I liked the easy guide with each step & the Pro analysis
What's not so great: couldn't enter past, none-Turbo, depreciations
while filing there is a purchase of the state filing option and confirmation of the tax payments. It would be good to have print options of these pages like we get for the audit defense. Tried to highlight, to copy and paste and the screen would not allow.
I did my step-daughter's taxes and she worked as ski instructor in Utah during a small part of the tax year. It wasn't much income so I decided to try filling out Utah's online forms myself. But I quickly saw that it was going to take some digging to make sure Utah didn't lay claim to more income than it deserved. So I decided to buy the Utah module for TurboTax and, boy, I was done in less than 5 minutes. No stress!
What's great about it: Avoided struggling through online forms
What's not so great: It cost money to save me time
Problems: even though I go through every step of the return, when the error check runs, it always find errors and blanks that were not filled in. To make that worse, instead of going back to the Easy Question format, it opens the form and take you to the nebulous tax code questions to complete the problem. Many times I have no clue what is expected. This has been a problem for over 10 years that I have used the program.
Second: state turbo tax. If you have anything unusual or slightly complex, you need to go and download the forms from the state and fill out then enter info into turbotax. This i why I bought the program and paid extra for state portion. Turbo tax should have those forms and use the EASY WALK-THROUGH method to fill these portions out. If not, I might as well do my taxes on paper by hand. PLEASE FIX THIS.
What's great about it: Easy to use and understand, easy download and install of initial program and updates, great e-file options
What's not so great: I have used TurboTax for > 10 years and it always has two problems that never get fixed
Pros: My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion), I bought or sold investments