I have used TT for many years except 2012 due to the poor reviews I read about TT when using a MacBook. I decided to give them another try, hoping the issues had been resolved. All went well until I tried to file, then my submission kept being rejected (TT said I need to update TT, but I had already done it) After 2 hours of monkeying around, I finally found a solution and got my submission to go through. TT, please work out the Mac issues for 2014. I will wait to see the reviews next year before I purchase again.
Last year the program looked for updates as soon as I opened the program. That was much more helpful and would have saved me quite of bit of extra time I spent looking for a schedule that it eventually looked for when I got to the review stage. Otherwise the program seems pretty straight forward and easy to use.
Foregn taxes verbiage on what to do was insanly confusing. The Arizona State forms gave no help and used tons of undefined jargon. "Did you have an HUDPI? or form 56834b" No help referances to what they were. Just guessing and saying no I think looses me money. Also he Fed return checked out but the state return requires some unexplained 2012 values for Dividens added to the Fed form. I couldn't figure out what it was for. So I chose 0. and rechecked the Fed form. I'm not a dummy. I am a computer programmer. If I can't figure it out only a CPA might,by reading the 1040 Docs. Not Good. The last couple of years the software has gotten lame. I'll be looking at others next year.
Pros: My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion), I moved, I bought or sold investments
Had a very frustrating time getting my wife's IRA information into the income side or the tax statement. I have both of these at Fidelity. All my info came in automaticly. After several attempts, I had to input all her IRA data manually. Would be nice if there was a prompt after the first IRA is completed that would say. "Does your spouse also have an IRA?" If yes, Turbo tax should start all over with the prompts to complete that IRA info. Got all the way through the Income sub set before seeing that her IRA info was not included.