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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
4
Very Good but there are alternatives
on September 15, 2014
Posted by: QuickDrawArchit
I would like to see how the information I am inputting is changing the amount of taxes owed or refund. The program does that to a certain extent but there are expenses you can input which will not change your return because you are taking a standard deduction. If you did your previous year in Turbo Tax it will import your previous year. I could be wrong but I do not think it will import information from Quickbooks.
What's great about it: Guides you through your return.
What's not so great: Costs more than some competitors.
Pros: My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion)
In the early years, I wasn't sure of the value of Turbo Tax, but as tax laws have become more complicated, and my investment companies now provide downloaded data to populate Schedule C, this software has become an essential tool for me. This year, the main glitches I ran into had to do with 1) the software not letting me change my mind about whether to depreciate something, and 2) when I had to delete the depreciation form to fix #1, I wanted to bring up a clean copy of the form for some other items and it was not easy to do this. I ran out of time (my fault, of course) and had to leave a deduction off. Oh, well. If I get audited, at least I will have some deductions to add back to any amended return.
What's great about it: Recalculates almost everything automatically
What's not so great: After deleting a form, we need an easy way to insert a new, blank version of it.
Program checked return, set up for efile, payed the exorbinate fees and as it started to transmit the program asked about an entry and changed the amount due. Money was sent but now it is incorrect!
NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE REFUND DEPOSITED TO BANK NEED TO GO ON TO NEXT SUBJECT, INSTEAD OF BACK TO THE GENERAL SECTION NEED "UPDATE" ONLY TO HIGHLITE IF THERE IS AN ENTRY NEED TO REVIEW SECTIONS AS YOU GO ALONG, NOTJUST AFTER ALL IS ENTERED-WITH AMOUNTS SHOWN NEED A BACK ARROW THROUGHOUT PROGRAM, SO YOU AREN'T JUST OUT OF TURBO TAX, WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE OTHER TAX FILES OR WHATEVER
What's great about it: GOOD PROGRAM
What's not so great: NEEDS SHORTCUTS FOR CONFIDENT USERS