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TurboTax Home & Business Federal & State Returns + Federal E-File 2013 - Mac/Windows
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Customer Reviews for TurboTax Home & Business Federal & State Returns + Federal E-File 2013 - Mac/Windows
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on April 7, 2014
Posted by: kgreenie
The people I talked to on the telephone when I had problems with complex issues (with K-1s) were professional, helpful, tenacious and either gave me definite answers, or they researched it, found definite answers and called me back. I was very impressed. On the other hand, when I typed in a fairly basic question ("Turbo Tax gave me a "standard deduction" of 13,400 for married filing jointly, but on the actual tax form, it says the SD is 12,200 -- why") I didn't come close to getting an answer. On the whole, Ithough, am very impressed with Turbo Tax.
I buy the locally running, CD version of TurboTax only because the online version does not have Form View. I need/like to click in to the forms when I'm checking over and tweaking my return. The walkthrough interview style for getting started is just fine but when it comes time to go back, check on things, tweak or add various items that style becomes incredibly tedious. Clicking though the same questions over and over again to get to the right spot. Form View helps with this because you can find the location in the form and simply change a number. But, actually, even this is not perfect--one is never entirely sure that the override isn't messing something else up. The real point here is that I think most people do their taxes in two or three passes and it's those second and third passes that deserve a little more attention as to how they flow. Intuit has the first pass down very nicely, but I think there could be some improvements for those successive passes where one may want to go back to a specific point over and over to run what-if scenarios.
On the whole is very good, but step by step is cumbersome, thus use forms. It is difficult to understand business deduction for home for the first time.