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Summary: More incompetent than the IRS itself
Review: After five years of TurboTax with no complaints, I switched to TaxCut for 2002 because it was cheaper and I objected to TurboTax's copy protection. I found TaxCut 2002 to be polished and mostly easy to use, so I was more than happy to pick it up again this year. What a mistake! The difference is night and day. TaxCut 2003 has an unfinished look about it, and I ran in to bugs at nearly every step, both state and federal. I will certainly be going back to TurboTax next year, copy protection or no.
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Summary: Basic Forms aren't too much to expect.. Are they?
Review: I tried to submit my State return using this product and it informed me that it didn't have the form I needed. But this must have been somewhat intentional, because it knew which form I needed and where to get it! The entire point in buying the software was so I could E-file, and now I can't, and I'm still out $25!The federal Program was good, so if you live in an area without State taxes, then TaxCut could be your program. But stay away from State!
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Summary: Incorrect Software
Review: I usually do my taxes on my own, but due to some one-time changes this year that greatly complicated them I decided to try out taxcut 2003. What a mistake! It was slow and confusing, I had to search through the menus to find some entries. The Missouri state form has no automatic entry for estimated tax payments, so I had to fill them out by hand anyway. I going to see how good their 100% satisfaction guarantee is and try and get my money back.
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Summary: Terrible Software
Review: The software is confusing and full of bugs. I can't even complete my taxes because it won't let me enter the amount of tax I had withheld from the previous year - so it says I owe money. The final print-out (form to send in) shows the line item to include taxes withheld. I spent about an hour completing my state (incorrectly) and 5 hours going thru each question and each form in Taxcut trying to get it to work correctly. It has other flaws - but my basic advice is that it's a waste of money unless your taxes are perfectly straight forward. Then I suggest doing them by hand - which is what I have to do - and I bought the software.
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Summary: Totally unusable
Review: This program does 2003 Virginia tax incorrectly. I have to do a paper return and that's much easier. FYI, if you need to do a second state return, you will need to buy another copy of this software.
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Summary: The Only Part of TaxCut Worth (Perhaps) a Dime
Review: To say that I dislike TaxCut is something of an understatement. I have used TaxCut for the first and last time this year after using TurboTax for the last seven years. I don't like Intuit's policies and marketing, but I will be back in the TurboTax fold next year for sure. Feel free to read my full review of the overall TaxCut product under the 'TaxCut Premium Home and Business' software item. TaxCut has a horrible, buggy interface, and assumes that you know a lot of background information prior to answering the interview questions. Beware. The verbiage TaxCut uses in some areas practically begs you to answer questions incorrectly, and if you have anything even remotely out of the ordinary in your return, you better be prepared to do a lot of research on your own. Having said that, the only relatively un-cumbersome part of TaxCut 2003, was the state product, which I had no problem loading up, updating, or using. Granted, the state return is normally not that complex, but it gave me no real problems, except that it was clueless on how to figure prior year AMT credits. Other than that, the state program worked fine. Of course to get to the state return, you first must run the gauntlet that is the TaxCut federal product, which I would never recommend to my worst enemy.
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Summary: It is VaporWare!
Review: Twenty five dollars for software that cannot be used! 1 star is too many. When you run the program you get a message that says you need to download the latest version - which will be available on January 31st. You can't use the program to get a head start or to estimate your taxes since there is no program beyond the message. They might just as well sell an empty box with a note that gives a URL to the download. Meanwhile, they have your money and you have nothing.
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Summary: Worthless piece of software
Review: Wanted to give taxcut a try. I got the CD and installed it. Software needs online update. Online update was not available because the server was too busy. It would not even start without the update. The update also requires proxy setting change. It is too much hassle to use it. Doing tax is frustrated enough, using this software made it even worse. Do not buy it.
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Summary: Get TaxCut Deluxe 2003 FIRST, then your on EASY ST!
Review: With TaxCut Deluxe 2003, you get a refund of your purchase price for this item. It installs SEAMLESSLY on top of the Federal software. You are able to input WITHOUT any update, but you should ALWAYS check for the latest update in early February, REGARDLESS of which tax software you buy, since neither H&R Block nor anyone else can be expected to publish what has not yet been issued by the taxing authorities! You only input or import data once when completing the federal return, and everything is automatically transferred into the state software, which is just another tab in the whole program (once you install it). It's fast, painless, and in my opinion, the only way to go. You'll save hours of manual input with this gem, and with the rebate, its FREE (ex sales tax)! If you use tax software, TaxCut is the way to go ;-)
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