I love turbo tax and am so grateful for the thorough yet vast help section that targets irs publications that can save vast amounts of time for both the user and the user's accounting / legal firms.
What's great about it: Turbo Tax provides the user the ability to focus on getting the information inputted quickly yet thoroughly.
What's not so great: The user may become so accustomed to using the initial tutorial walk thru, they overlook moneysaver advice from TurboTax
Pros: I had a baby, My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion), I bought or sold investments
I finished my personal returns and had to upgrade to Business edition for and estate filing. Since I had to buy a second edition I should have got a second state with it but I didn't. Unfair.
What's great about it: Did excellent job overall
What's not so great: Had to buy upgrade but did not include 2nd state
Pros: My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion)
Purchased TurboTax via disk this year. In past, have downloaded. Past years' info not available. Roughed in data, then finished later. Access to all past info was not readily available, specifically est tax inputs. Some confusing questions: re early pension benefits - tutorial led me to believe mine was an early payout, but it was not. I am aware of the difficulty in attempting to address ALL possible situations, but mine is simple. I had to wade thru many NA forms. Don't have a good solution
What's great about it: Appear to be up to speed on all changes
What's not so great: Program is very difficult to find pertinent key information for review