Overall Turbo Tax is the only way to go for the filer who doesn't need serious tax preparation advice. I'm confident that all the versions, Basic, Deluxe and Premier would suffice for 90% of tax filers of today.
There are always those who will rely on a paid preparer for filing their taxes, but in my view that doesn't make fiscal sense when Turbo Tax is so simple to use.
My only nit if it is really a nit is there are still updates coming out late in the filing season. One would think all the "glitches" would have been discovered by both the taxing authorities and the software folks long before the end of the filing period.
I prepared my return and saved it about a month ago all the way to getting ready to e-file it. I returned to it today, and the program had updates, which I installed. Then when I brought my return back up, much of the data I had painstakenly entrered earlier was missing. The big clue was that instead of my owing $2645, I owed over $9000! I was most upset. Missing was: My Social Security Benefits My Itemized Deductions My Estimated Tax Payments After several hours re-entering data, I e-filed successfully and saved a copy. Then when I went to print it, only 4 pages were prnted at a time.
I have been using Turbo Tax for a long time now - many years. It has improved every year and has never failed to allow me to go through an otherwise demanding and consumptive effort with apparent ease.
Using TurboTax saves paying a tax accountant hundreds of dollars and provides as good or better accuracy. It's easy to enter or download the new data, and it is particularly great that it loads last year's data to be used as needed.