This procedure is much easier than sitting through a session with a tax preparer. I have had mixed results over the years with professionally prepared taxes. I now only seek guidance if I need help with something out of the ordinary. If you have routine tax issues this is the way to go. It also saves so much money versus the pros. Pros tend to charge you for every additional form required. It eats up your refund if you get one.
What's great about it: Simple step by step procedure
This was a good version of Turbo Tax. I finished my return in a day, a record for me. The non-cash charitable contribution section still makes it difficult to enter items not on the list. I had 50 individual care items valued at ten cents each. It refused to accept this, stating items over $500. had to be entered a different way -- in spite of its own total of $5. I guess this was just a little glitch. The rest of the program was the best ever.
What's great about it: Easiest version ever
What's not so great: Still hard to enter non-cash charitable contributions
Some stages seemed to be poorly designed, awkward to utilize and slow to function. And I can't believe your review system wouldn't accept my nickname because it was too short-less than four letters. You don't recognize Jim, Tim, Kim etc? That needs to be changed... Americans use a lot of very short nicknames...
What's great about it: Excellent for a fairly simple return
I have filed three separate federal/state returns and all three state returns have failed. The state is Mass. Any idea why these e-filings are failing?
For those who want to attempt to do their own taxes, this is the best program out there....I believe anyone can do their own taxes using Turbo Tax.....I used to be a tax preparer for the major Tax company....and tried their program, as did a good friend of mine (who also had worked for the same company).....we had so much difficulty with it....so we returned the program and went to Turbo Tax...this was almost 10 years ago and I won't switch and neither will she.
What's great about it: Simple to use...help when I need it...great checking system!