Overall, TurboTax does a good job of making a tedious annual exercise a little less painful.
My concern about the 1099-LTC offestting expenses is there are actually two different places one can enter Long-Term Care (LTC) expenses. The first one does not offset against the LTC reimbursements, thus causing the reimbursements to be treated as income. The second one does offset against the LTC reimbursements correctly. Clarification of these two entries should be made much more apparent to assist the user to make the proper selection for the situation! Better yet, if there are LTC Reimbursements, then the proper LTC expenses should be a required field!
What's great about it: Nice Scripts for data entry
What's not so great: Did not initially handle 1099-LTC offsetting expenses correctly
For the most part I found the program to be very easy to use and helpful. One major problem I had was that I refinanced my home with the same lender, and the program did not provide an option for amortizing my carryover points from the previous refi to the new loan. In order for me to get the numbers to work out correctly I had to do a lot of research and then finagle the reporting information. The other problem I had was that the program did not catch an error I had made by reporting the same IRA contribution in two different places. Had I not reviewed my documents page by page before submission I would have missed it too. I realize that it was my error, but since the posted contributions were identical, perhaps the program could be written to question that.
What's great about it: Easy to use. Good tips offered.
What's not so great: Did not catch an error. Allowed me to post two identical retirement account contributions.
I have always used Turbo tax, never had any problem. all items was simple to work with and if you don't understand anything there's always help to assist you.. Turbo Tax is the only tax program for me.