Amazon.com Product Description

TaxCut Standard 2002 offers many new features, like nine-year tax preview, Home Office Assistant, Retirement Savings Enhancer, and free H&R Block financial planners. In addition, you still get your favorite standard features such as auto entry and financial data imports.

H&R Block financial planners assist you in determining if your investments support your financial goals and if your asset allocation matches your risk tolerance. You can also create what-if scenarios for future savings. Nine-year tax preview shows you all the ways that the tax legislation of 2001 will affect you now and in the future. Home Office Assistant walks you through a series of questions to see if your home office qualifies for tax purposes. Retirement Savings Enhancer provides ways to increase your tax and retirement savings to ensure you get the most out of your 401(k).

The improved Error Check feature catches mistakes or omissions that could cost you money or flag your return for an IRS audit. Entry Manager tracks where your data originates, guides you to related forms, and itemizes your entries. It also allows you to flag entries as tentative, so you can go back and review them before you finalize your return. The H&R Block tax law assistant helps you understand the implications of changing tax laws, provides information about how the changes affect your taxes, and ensures you get the maximum tax benefit possible under the new laws. Auto entry automatically imports W-2 and 1099 information from participating employers and financial institutions. Auto entry saves you valuable time and prevents costly data entry errors, and makes it easy to deal with multiple W-2s. ... Read more

Features

• No more wading through paperwork for hours -- the simple Tax Assistants bring you the financial assistance you need, step-by-step
• Work out the total taxable value on your stock portfolios, options, and capital gains with no trouble
• Then print out and mail your tax return and get your refund back in time at all!

Reviews (33)

Seriously buggy---may cost me big time
This software has a serious bug that may cost me a great deal of money.

My wife lived in Illinois for a year while I lived most of the year in California.In such a case, it is imperative that we file our Federal returns separately, otherwise Illinois will tax us on the money I earned in California!

TaxCut not only didn't warn us of this, it incorrectly computed the Illinois taxes using the part-year resident form. This was in spite of my having specified that my wife was in Illinois the whole year, and in spite of it being very plainly stated on the Illinois form that under such circumstances, a couple filing jointly could not use the form!

Unfortunately, I allowed TaxCut to e-file my return before I checked the state returns.Now I have to file an amendment.

I was also unable to get any help from TaxCut's customer support to stop the e-filing before it went through.

I'll never use their software again.

Great product, easy to use, helped me get a bigger refund
I don't understand why the average customer review is only 3 stars.I've used this product for 3 years now, and found it very easy to use, efficient, accurate.It's less expensive than Turbo Tax, but just as good.

This year, I tried using a free online service recommended by the IRS to do my taxes.After spending a few hours with it, I realized it lacked the ability to account for money I'd previously paid the IRS toward this year's tax bill.So I did what I should have done in the first place - got the latest TaxCut software and re-did my tax return (in half the time).TaxCut got me a bigger refund.

My only reservation is that TaxCut charges a little more to E-file your return than the online service would have charged.But accounting for the bigger refund, I'm still way ahead.

I'm sure TurboTax would be just as good for most people.But TaxCut costs less and works very, very well.

My first tax-prep software
I can't really compare this software to others, but I can say that it did a pretty good job for me. Just spend about 20 minutes answering questions in the beginning, and it will do most of the rest. My tax return consisted of several jobs for both my wife and I, working in two different states, mutual fund and stock purchases and sales, interest and capital gains income, and a mortgage. I thought this would make my return to complicated for a comuter software, but everything I needed was here. Nad if for some reason you don't like what it does, you can manually change any entry. However, if you manually change entries, you will not be allowed to e-file.
I installed this on my desktop, and again on my laptop to do some work when my wife was working on the desktop. This worked fine. But there is no clear way of letting one computer know what you did on another computer, so multiple installations are for the most part useless.
The one thing I don't like is that it seemed like procrastinators are rewarded for their laziness in that this software gets cheaper the nearer you get to April 15th, to the point where it become free after rebate.

Good alternative to Turbotax
I bought Taxcut this tax season because I was not interested in having Intuit's intrusive product activation features placed on my computer. I found Taxcut to be a decent alternative to Turbotax. (Is there any reason, though, why we have to put up with H&R Block putting Earthlink advertising on my computer?)

-1 stars would be even more accurate!>:(
i had an almost identical experience as the person from Oregon...when using this software. I want to voice my utter disgust with this product.

After corrupting my tax data file TWICE with this product, and getting nothing from their technical support except "start over", and getting no idea as to why my submissions were rejected, i ended up manually printing out each form (which in itself wasn't straightforward), and sending snail-mail, TWO days after the tax deadline. The TaxCut people quickly agreed to refund me my $..., though thats zero consolation considering the money i'm going to lose from filing late with the IRS!!

i assure you, no matter how cheap they sell TaxCut, it is simply not worth it! it should not be trusted to handle official government documents. period. ... Read more

Features

• Complete tax solution for small business owners
• Improved Schedule C interview; improved error check
• Extra assistance on depreciation, business expenses, and more
• Forms for self-employment, corporations, partnerships, estates, and non-profits
• Free after rebate: H&R Block tax advice, TaxCut Personal State, and e-filing

Reviews (10)

Use At Your Own Risk
I selected this product because it was the only comprehensive business product I could download (why pay for and wait for shipping if you can avoid it?).

I experienced many of the problems of the other reviewers, including:

--Gaps in the interview process that simply refer you to IRS instructions.

--Software refused to launch after installing state product, requiring a reinstall. Fortunately, I had already printed out a draft of my return, so I'm just looking at having to do some data entry rather than start from scratch.

--State product for my state (NY) was worse than the free, fill-in version of the form available from the New York State website. Not only did it simply display the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance instructions instead of walking me through my return, but the "updated" form refused to print because, according to the software, it wasn't approved by New York State.

Fortunately, TaxCut offers a no-questions-asked refund, which I took them up on for the state business product. Because the refund is for a downloaded product, I didn't have to mail any disks back or fill out any forms to get my refund.

I'm sticking with TaxCut, bugs and all, for my federal return because it is less than half the price of TurboTax , and because I don't want to pay for and wait for shipping of a product I have no way of knowing is any better.

Here's what I suggest for other intrepid souls who wish to use TaxCut to file their business returns:

--View the product for what it is: simply an aid to filling out your own taxes.

--Become thoroughly familiar with your own tax situation; get tax books and download the IRS forms and instructions as well. Don't rely on the software to know anything you don't--and be pleasantly surprised when it does.

--Check your completed return carefully for any anomalies (mine inexplicably included a form I didn't need).

--Do not purchase the state product; you'll do much better with the interactive forms available from your state website.

Worst software I've ever tried to use
I purchased this software based on reviews I read on Amazon where Turbo Tax wasn't rated as highly on the day I was researching. In reading the reviews today, I am gratified to learn that my problems were common among other users.
The problems I encountered were extreme difficulty installing the software and then not having updates available yet.When they finally were available, then I had trouble getting the updates to download and function properly.I had a problem getting assistance because the help people operate on East Coast time so they aren't available in the evenings when I'm working on this. I cannot believe that any product related to taxes would provide such limited hours of support.Long and short - after about 6 frustrating days, I gave up on TaxCut.I went to the IRS and my state website and downloaded extensionforms as I had run out of time, patience, and sanity.For the aggravation I just experienced, I want to warn anyone else that this software is horrible.Since I had to do so much uninstalling and reinstalling, my computer is noticeably slower than before my Tax Cut experience.I hope that I didn't screw up my computer as they had me doing all kinds of things to it to try to get the software to download.They said the registry was not fully installing for some reason.Now I think maybe my computer was trying to tell me something - like "please don't load this garbage into my hard drive" -STAY AWAY FROM TAX CUT HOME & BUSINESS!

Worst program EVER
If this product even exists next year, I will be amazed.

This program is by far the WORST program I have ever used. The interface is bad. The installation is buggy. The data entry only "remembers" the first letter of what you type and you don't find that out until later in the interview process. The updates disable the program so it no longer loads. The tax forms are still "out of date" and "unapproved" even though it is days before the corporate filing deadline. And then there is that slight problem of it not printing.

Oh, and I tried installing this on three different computers with three different configurations (XP-Pro, 98, NT).It doesn't work on any of them!The fact that it does not work (in different ways, of course) really shows its bugginess... I would have almost thought the install on my CD was bad if it was consistently sucky.But no.This is just a horrible piece of software.

At one point I did get some semblance of the software to run (no printing, but I didn't know that until I finished the effort), but in the so-called "interview" it just lists off almost random questions that you have to figure out what the hell they mean.If I was that much of a tax-wiz, I wouldn't need a program like this! I expected some layman's-language guidance, but instead get random quotes from the IRS form. With no explanation, even when I click on the supposed "help" (which tells me how to use my mouse or tab in the program - gee that helps).

I am absolutely taking them up on their 100% guarantee and getting a refund. This embarrassment of a program should never have seen the light of day, and can only be horrible joke of some kind. Run away from this program, and get a refund if you already wasted your money on this.

Buggy and Crude, and That's the Good News!
I had been a faithful TurboTax user since 1996, but this year decided to give TaxCut a chance as I do not like the way Intuit does business, and was hoping for a better option. Unfortunately, I will have to go back to TurboTax next year as TaxCut is very substandard.

I have a moderately complex tax return (including a Schedule C business) and have a fairly firm understanding of the tax codes that pertain to me, which was a good thing, as the interview is NOT complete in several important areas, and presumes that you know how some specifics apply to you. This was especially true in business deductions, and the dreadful Schedule D interrogation. I had one issue on a broker statement that was never addressed in the interview, nor was any help available on how the program wanted it entered (it was a 'cash in lieu' transaction). I checked the help pages and indexes, but it had no idea. I finally had to essentially do my Schedule D by hand and make sure the numbers were correct, as the only way to enter it was as a dividend (which it technically was not.) I have never had problems like this with TurboTax. I am grateful that I had no foreign taxes paid this year; I don't think I would have had the patience for that.

Another problem I had was with the entries for the form 8606 ('Nondeductible IRAs') which couldn't figure my basis from my 2002 return plus my 2003 contributions. The verbiage used to ask the questions in the IRA interview BEGS you to make an error in entering the basis. When I used the 'show form' function, unlike TurboTax, it will not show the IRS form, it shows the IRS form plus a lot of TaxCut worksheet entries intermingled with the real form which is extremely annoying, when all you really want to do is look at the real form to see what the program is doing for certain entries.

The interface itself is laughable. It takes up about the middle half of my monitor, and there is no way to maximize it. Why on earth TaxCut would ignore huge bands of space on the sides of the presentation and make the font small and hard to decipher in a central window is a mystery to me. Beware of the interview. If you have anything other than an extremely simple return, it is inadequate, and you will need help (I recommend the J. K. Lasser "Your Income Tax 2004" book) figuring out how to enter some data.

My overall biggest complaint, though, without doubt, was the error check at the end of the program. After I finished entering my data, it said I had nine errors that had to be corrected, and ten warnings, that I should examine. In all cases the 'errors' were due to things TaxCut did not do correctly. For instance, it imported my 2002 TurboTax results and saw I filed Schedule C-EZ, but this year I needed a regular Schedule C. TaxCut was not smart enough to delete the C-EZ, and in fact came up with a paragraph long explanation of where I needed to look for entries pertinent to the C-EZ and manually delete them or change them to refer to the new Schedule C, and only then could I delete the Schedule C-EZ (which was, at any rate, empty.) The other 'errors' were because TaxCut doesn't grasp what 401K contributions do to your W-2. I wrestled with fixing these errors for about two days. Ugh.

I can't recommend this product. I gave it two stars only for the simple reason that after all was said and done, it did compute the taxes correctly, and the state taxes were actually a snap.

Save yourself a headache, buy TurboTax instead. I don't like Intuit either, but I like staying sane more than I dislike Intuit. Never again will I use TaxCut.

BEWARE of the Business Product
TaxCut Business has many problems.I am suprised that it is even on the market.This product does not even deserve 1 star!

The interview is not exhaustive.The user must have a fair amount of tax knowledge to adequately utilize the software.The interview does not suggest forms that should be used.

The update process corrupted my data.A long session with tech support concluded with me re-entering the return.

After this pain, for some reason, I decided to stick with it and download the state business product.After much work, the return would not print because the forms had not been approved by the state.When I asked customer service about this, they assured me that approved forms would be available in a few weeks.Well, as of this writing it is 3/9/04.Business returns are due on 3/15/04.Exactly how long should I wait for "approved" forms?

All in all, the product is difficult to use.If you are not an advanced computer & software user, you will really feel some pain.

I could go on, but read the other reviews, some good points are brought up.

I'm on the way to return the product for a refund. ... Read more

Features

• Tax software guides users through California tax returns
• Interview-based wizard system
• Up-to-date with latest California tax law
• Checks math and audit flags
• Contains all the forms users will need

Product Description

Kiplinger TaxCut Standard 2004.TaxCut Standard provides great features at a great value with everything you need to complete your Federal return quickly and accurately. Just answer simple questions and the program does the rest. FEATURES ⢠Customized Tax Interview Answer questions that pertain to your specific tax situation.⢠Error Check Automatically double-checks your return for errors or omissions.⢠Life Events Advice Helpful tax and financial advice for handling topics such as marriage, new home purchase, retiring and more.⢠Electronic Refund Advance Loan Get your money in as little as two business days.*⢠Seamless Imports Quickly and easily import last year's tax and financial data from TaxCut, TurboTax , Quicken, Microsoft Money and HR Block DeductionPro .⢠Multiple Tax Payment Options Easy ways to pay your taxes owed. ... Read more

Features

• Easily import last year's data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, and more
• Software for completing Federal tax return quickly and accurately
• Customized tax interview; helpful tax and financial advice for specific life events
• Automatically double-checks return for errors or omissions
• Get paid in as little as 2 business days with electronic refund-advance loan

Reviews (7)

Better than TurboTax
We used TurboTax for a couple of years then switched to TaxCut on the advice of friends. It saved us a lot more money! It is more knowledgeable at making the most of one's deductions than TurboTax. We are sorry we didn't switch last year when we first thought of it.

Can't file even a printed 2004 return
Last year we were able to file a printed return using this software. This year not only could we not down load the mandatory update because there were no instructions that worked, but the software would not let us print a filable return only one with "draft do not file" written all over it. We went to Smart Tax, one of several on line providers listed on the IRS site, and used this to prepare and file our 1040 for free, and our state for a small fee this afternoon!I'll admit that having done the draft with Tax Cut helped.I'm not counting on Tax Cut to get this fixed by next year.

OK BUT UPDATE PROBLEMS
I have used Tax Cut for several years and reasonably satisfied.But the 2004 edition has an error in the auto update software that causes "UNEXPECTED ERROR" flag when trying to download the update.The TaxCut web site acknowledges the error and lists cause as UNKNOWN.Wasted time disabling firewall, anti-virus, etc. with no resolution.The only solution is to download a full update from their web site which is 42 mb and takes 3 hours with a 56K modem.Imagine this when buying software to speed your tax preparation.A check of the internet shows others having this problem also.Apparently they did not do much quality testing of this product.

Otherwise the software is similar to previous years.

Never, never again.
I used Tax Cut Standard successfully two years ago, and touted it to everyone as a "must have." To my embarrassment, when I finally persuaded my mother to buy the program last year, it failed to work! It couldn't even do the math correctly. At first, I thought maybe it was human error, but when I checked her print outs, the math was definitely way off. She got a refund on her purchase (minus shipping), but was so frustrated, I did her taxes the old fashioned way: by hand.

This year, I worried a little about bugs in the software, but thought "Surely they've fixed them," and bought the 2004 software for myself. It seems to work okay, BUT now the manufacturer is getting greedy! It used to be I could do all my self-employed taxes (such as Schedule C) with Tax Cut Standard, and when I bought my software for '04, the "Standard" edition said nothing about changes. But lo! You can no longer file self employment forms with the software, and must pay $55 for a "Business Edition" for the forms we self-employed people need.

Fat chance. I'll take an afternoon and do them by hand, instead.

eh, it's alright
This is my third year with taxcut.It works.I avoid Turbotax because of their reported spyware problesm (at least in the past).

Taxcut is a simple program and obviously H&R Block doesn't spend much on programmers.In fact I can't believe they have more than one part-time person on the front-end of it.It does not look professionally done, more like a beta version.Every year I've used it the text has overlaped entry boxes.The information is displayed in an annoyingly small box with a scroll bar.They should just use the whole screen so I don't have to scroll.You could easily forget to scroll and miss boxes you need to fill in.It gets 1.5 stars for appearance and use.

That said, a fairly simple return takes about an hour and only costs $9.99 (Walmart's got you beat Amazon). It's a tax code and at the end of the day I don't need anything pretty.

It does try to sell me more H&R services, but I guess I've grown used to that.Still, it would all go faster without that in the way.And the navigation just isn't great; in fact it might be poor.And it put two icons on my desktop that I had to delete.But it's this or TurboTax.

An aside: For the life of me I can't figure out why I need to buy tax software.The government could save money, trees, errors and time if they'd distribute a free software package.If they write the rules the least they could do is let me download a free program to interpret them. ... Read more

Features

• More expansive deductible item database; import last year¿s DeductionPro data
• Accurate, fair-market values to the most commonly donated household items
• Complete donation tracker and donation reports; estimated tax savings meter
• IRS publications; FAQs and program help; record keeping alerts
• New deduction advisor and quick value check; seamless TaxCut software import

Reviews (5)

This software stinks!
Warning: After successfully saving my file, I continued to input over 100 line items in this program (a very time consuming task).When finished, I tried to save but received an error message.Then when I tried to open my file, the message said it wasn't a valid file format.My file was corrupted and cannot be retrieved, and the technical support had no idea how it happened or whether it could happen again.I am in the process of returning this program.

The non-cash charitable contribution section is a great idea, but it's cumbersome: you have to scroll down a very long list each time (no key words).Plus, there are many every-day items that aren't on the list; bicycle helmet is, but dishware isn't.

I haven't tried the alternative, but this program is awful.

Horrible Interface
Don't even bother...Even an excel spreadsheet is easier than this.There is no way to enter multiple different items that were given on the same date.You have to type the date for each item individually (not even a copy/paste function).When looking up the value of an item you have to go through multiple menu's that aren't arranged well.Very clunky and disappointing.

Software of Very Limited Value
I bought DeductionPro because I'd donated a lot of old clothing, furniture and books to charity last year, and I wanted some assistance organizing and valuing those contributions for my tax preparation. DeductionPro allowed me to enter all of this information, provided a table for estimating their value, and prepared the required IRS form for claiming those deductions since they were valued at over $500.

Beyond that, there's not much to this software. Its user interface is not very slick. There fields have limited space to enter information, the error messages are not helpful, there are no good instructions, and it's overall look and feel is pretty amateurish. I wasn't very impressed. However, since it comes free with TaxCut, it was clearly worth the money I (didn't) pay.

There's nothing here that you can't get by simply using tax preparation software. The only real value add is the valuation tables, and they are pretty limited. You can also use it to record cash donations, out of pocket expenses and other kinds of deductions. However, unlike TaxCut, there's limited advise available for doing so, and no obvious benefit to using this software for those things.

On the whole, using DeductionPro benefited me, but it's nothing to write home about. If you don't need the merchandise valuation tables for non-cash donations, I wouldn't spend the time or money to use this software. Your tax prep software will do it all just as well. If you do need help valuing your donations, then this might make your life a little easier, but not much.

Not worth the money
This program is basically a simple database that allows you to enter your donations.It will help you value your donations, but it's difficult to do in the program.You need to know which category your item is listed under before you can find it's value in this program.It doesn't let you search for your item to find the value.I don't see any value in this program.Entering all of your donations in this program is a hassle.It's easier to enter them directly into your tax program.

It is useless!!!
I bought the software and the first step it requires you to do is to enter organization name and address. It gives you so little space for both that I can't even enter my church name in a meaningful way. I can barely enter street address of all the organizations. I have to use the TaxCut software to modify the names once they are imported. It's useless! The only good thing is that I do get my rebate so at least it's free. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

TaxCut Platinum takes the guesswork out of preparing your taxes, and turns tax time into a pain-free, logical, educational, and simplified experience.

It seemed like TaxCut Platinum was easier to use this year than ever.Navigating through taxable income, deductions, and penalties is far less tedious than it used to be. With TaxCut Platinum you can easily enter your W-2 information (and depending on your employer, some W-2s can be automatically populated), view educational videos on current tax law, and take an interview to see if you qualify for a specific section. TaxCut Platinum also lets you skip any steps with which you are already familiar, and easily return to any section of the form.

As is standard with most of these programs, you must purchase state tax software separately from the federal program. However, TaxCut Platinum includes rebate coupons for your state program and electronic filing fees. Once you have installed your state program, all the information you have already entered into your federal return will be automatically read by the state program. Once you've finished with both returns you can choose the format in which you want to file them: by mail or electronically. TaxCut Platinum will walk you through either process with printing and mailing instructions and electronic filing guidelines.

New features this year include Retirement Savings Enhancer, 9-Year Tax Preview, Home Office Assistant, and Portfolio Manager. Improvements have been made to the Error Check and Entry Manager features. TaxCut Platinum also includes professional tax advice from H&R Block.

While enjoyable is certainly not the first adjective that comes to mind when preparing your tax return, TaxCut Platinum certainly makes the process more than bearable. --Kendra Hayden ... Read more

Features

• No more wading through paperwork for hours -- the simple Tax Assistants bring you the financial assistance you need, step-by-step
• Work out the total taxable value on your stock portfolios, options, and capital gains with no trouble
• Find out how you can increase your tax and retirement savings with sound advice from H&R Block and Kiplinger
• Also includes free copies of TaxCut State, E-filing, and a copy of Microsoft Money(after rebate - See below)

Reviews (21)

Very user friendly tax software
I have used TaxCut for several years now, and really appreciate its convenience and ease of use.The software works like an interview - you answer a list of questions, and when you are done, your tax return is complete.It picks up the data from prior year returns done on TaxCut, so if you use the program year after year, it gets progressively easier and less time-consuming to prepare your taxes.Clear explanations are provided for every entry, potential problem areas are flagged, and your return is compared with average taxpayer returns in your income bracket so you can see if your deductions etc. are out of line with the norm. The state program for my state is also very simple to use.In my opinion, using TaxCut is far simpler and less stressful than either doing taxes by hand or using a tax preparer.

Don't use Tax Cut if you have to file an Oregon State return
Last year I used Turbo Tax and was able to file my state return electronically.This year I switched to Tax Cut and it doesn't support E-filing the Oregon State return.Now, at the last minute, I have to print and file a manual return. This will add about 2 months to the time it takes to get a refund.Next year it's back to Turbo Tax, no matter how bad it is, it's better than Tax Cut.

Disappointing; about as good as TurboTax was 2-3 years ago
I switched to TaxCut from TurboTax because reviews said it was as good as TurboTax but without TurboTax's copy protection scheme.Unfortunately, I was disappointed.Entering Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) transactions was much more difficult than last year's TurboTax.The capital gains wizard was almost no help.The online instructions and help were much less helpful, and the help had a much poorer index.

Overall, I would say TaxCut 2003 is about as good as TurboTax was 2-3 years ago.But it is not nearly as easy to use as TurboTax was last year.As much as I dislike TurboTax's copy protection scheme, I will go back to TurboTax next year.

Does not live up to TurboTax Deluxe
Since this is my first year of trying to file US Income Taxes _myself_, I picked TaxCut since I didn't like the TurboTax registration annoyance. I later hat the opportunity to enter my Federal and my California Tax Info on a friend's computer with TurboTax Deluxe and thus was able to compare the Interview process.

My tax situation was very easy except for 3 issues:
1. I had to pay tax due in 2002 for my 2001 State Tax Return
2. I collected foreign dividends, interest and captital gains
3. I payed foreign taxes (on those foreign dividends and
interests) and thus filed form 1116.

So what happend:
1. Knowing on where and how to enter the fact that I payed state
taxes, was a major hassle with TaxCut. The interview process
asked about it at one point, but then you were left alone
to figure out on which of the following screens you had
to enter this information, so that it would properly carry
over to the State tax program. There was nothing in the FAQ,
in any of the help sections or on the website. It took
two emails with customer support to get an answer to this
question.

TurboTax explicitely asked that question in its interview
process and had my enter the amount right away.

2. Neither program provides any support for dealing with foreign
currencies, so you're on your own with the conversion.

3. Form 1116 was another nightmare with TaxCut, which basically
left you to filling out the forms / worksheets by yourself.
TurboTax made it much more easier.

Other issues:
- Changes in the Federal Data did not always carry over
properly to the State Return (i.e. when I deleted info
about Estimated Taxes payed). I only noticed this
when comparing the figures with TurboTax
- I bought the "Platinum" version, but I didn't see any
practical benefit.

At the end of the day both programs calculated the same
figures, however TurboTax' interview progress was much clearer

and mad me much more comfortable.

If TurboTax didn't have that awkward registration scheme I would never use TaxCut again.

Never used Turbo Tax anyway
Taxcut is easy to use and my return is relatively simple, so I was mostly satisfied with it.Contrary toprevious reviews, it does have an interview feature and I did not find that I had to enter the same information repeatedly.

On the downside, the program is full of bugs that range from the amusing (like saying "I see that your spouse also moved this year" when I am filing a single return!) to the scary (like forcing me to enter a value for a mortgage deduction when I do not own a home)I run a small home based business and that seemed to extend Taxcut's capability to the maximum.Taxcut worked fine this year, but if my business grows any larger,I'll switch to something else next year. ... Read more

Features

• Quickly and easily import last year's tax data from TaxCut or TurboTax
• Automatically calculates, checks for common errors, and prepares the proper tax forms for your return
• Once submitted, a tax pro at H&R Block checks for errors, corrects identified problems on your return and then signs and e-files your return
• Includes Audit Protection; if the IRS audits or serves notice to you, an H&R Block representative will assist in answering questions regarding the preparation of your return
• Get unlimited phone or e-mail consultation with an experienced tax pro to answer tax questions

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Quicken TurboTax Home & Business has everything for your sole proprietorship and personal taxes, which means that you get all of the money-saving expert tax advice in TurboTax Deluxe, plus extra advice and features especially for sole proprietors. EasyStep Interview places answers directly into IRS-approved forms and performs all calculations automatically. TurboTax finds errors, overlooked deductions, and entries that could trigger an audit, and lets you file electronically to get your refund faster. Home Office Expert shows you how to take advantage of new tax laws and provides advice to ensure that you get every home office deduction that you deserve. Depreciation Expert helps you maximize your depreciation deduction, with extra help on one of the most difficult tax topics--it's like having a business tax expert who gives you easy-to-follow tips on when and how to depreciate your assets. TurboTax Home & Business lets you create and print Forms 1099-Misc and W-2 for your contractors and employees. U.S. Averages by Industry shows you how your income and expenses compare to those of other businesses in your industry. Industry-specific Ratio Analysis helps you measure your company's profitability and performance against that of others in your industry. Business Tax Planner helps you understand the tax implications of business decisions that affect your tax liability. Two-Year Comparison shows you a side-by-side breakdown of your 1998 and 1999 income and expenses, and lets you see what's changed and if there's anything that you missed. Business Tax Library provides instant access to the full onscreen text of official IRS publications and two of the leading business tax guides: "J.K. Lasser's Tax Deductions for Small Business" and "Tax Savvy for Small Business." Video Tax Guidance gives expert video tax advice for business-specific tax topics. Get all of these and more features, which have been designed for business, as well as all of the tools for your personal taxes. Includes one free Turbotax State. ... Read more