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Summary: State Download is Not Free
Review: TurboTax Deluxe is advertised as containing a free state download. It's not. You have to pay [money] for the download by credit card, plus state tax if applicable,then fill out and send in the rebate form. So, you are paying interest on your credit card, state tax, and Intuit is getting interest on your money before they send it back in 6 to 8 weeks. IT'S NOT FREE.
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Summary: spyware, adware, tax nightmare
Review: Spyware, adware, forget it. I have used TT for 7 years - no more. by e bye Intuit.
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Summary: Parasites of tax law
Review: My accountant says Turbotax didn't calculate the allowable IRA deduction correctly. I don't know whether Turbotax or my accountant is correct. I don't care. I hate taxes. Turbotax doesn't ease that hatred at all. Determination of taxable income has become so absurdly complex that there's no hope of understanding it. Without hope of understanding it, there's no hope that I'll think it fair. When Turbotax takes care of the complexity for me, it merely obscures the complexity, which makes the whole process still less understandable, still more suspicious, and still more unfair. Yet I have to pay them and put up with their stupid rebates (why not just lower the price in the first place and skip the rebate paperwork?), while they make Intuit an indispensable appendage of the IRS, and while Intuit's lobbyist doubtless never objects to further tax law complexity.
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Summary: Loyal customer no more
Review: I have used TurboTax for years and have gone through several computers, so all versions may be asked to print someplace they didn't start out at. To blindside loyal customers with another way to make a dollar, Intuit is making a bad mistake. They may be using the same activation criteria as WindowsXP and OfficeXP, but I can live without TurboTax.
From now on, I plan to go to Tax-cut.
Shame on you INTUIT!!
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Summary: And a free virus too
Review: It's true, Intuit installs C Dilla anti-piracy software so it can only be used on your PC, even worse they don't remove it when you uninstall TurboTax. Research C Dilla with and web search engine and you'll find for yourself - it's a Trojan virus.
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Summary: stay away from state tax
Review: this program changed the data after i had printed out my local hardcopy, so that the amount due to the state INCREASED by almost 1700.00. when i called their tech support, they could have cared less. it was up to me to manually fill out an amended form and submit it (no e-file for this). i now have to wait some months to get my 1700.00 back.
next year, Tax Cut.
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Summary: TurboTax is the best.
Review: Having been a TurboTax user since the early 90's, actually it was ChipSoft originally, I have never had a problem doing my taxes. TurboTax always seems to have the answers to the questions I have regarding my different tax scenario's through the years. This years product was no different!! If you want an easy way to do your taxes correctly, use this product. I looked at a friends TaxCut product (he bought it because it was inexpensive) and it appears to me to be the turbotax product 5 years ago. TurboTax has a long history of leading the industry and has never had a major problem with the tax as far as I know. That's proof enough to use this product. I will say that I was a little nervous about the controversy regarding the product activation. I called Intuit and got a quick response in writing that helped alleviate my fears. I then proceeded to install the product and had NO PROBLEM. I actually called and got the codes instead of using the internet. YES, YOU CAN DO THAT, it gives the phone number right in the instructions. I expect to see a lot of people who say this review is no help to them, and will laugh, because there will be a lot of people who might actually use the product after reading this review(if it is posted) that wouldn't have if they had trusted the reviewers entirely. They will quietly thank me. The one thing that TurboTax does the best is Tax, if you are looking for a tax product, what else matters?
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Summary: Time to switch
Review: I have used Turbotax successfully for 8 years. No more.This year's version flunks out. You are limited to printing your return on the first computer on which you install it. I bought a new computer after I received my Turbotax software. It is a major annoyance to get permission to install and print from my present computer. However, the real reason for the "F" grade is the inability of Turbotax to download updates and financial institution data with my firewall configured to give it maximum clearance. Turbotax does not offer worthwhile support, only suggesting that I completely uninstall my firewall. They have lost me as a customer.
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Summary: WATCH OUT!! TurboTax is a real PAIN -"product activation"
Review: I have been a loyal TurboTax user since it came out BUT no MORE! I will try to find something without the "product activation" feature. I bought a new computer and loaded TurboTax. When I needed to exchange the new computer before I even started my taxes I found out INTUIT wanted me to buy another package! I spent hours on the website and with tech service. After getting irrate with tech service they finally said "just this one time I will give you a new key"! ...well just this LAST time will I buy TurboTax! If one looks closely at this scheme it looks more like something cooked up by Marketing at INTUIT to milk their customers for multiple purchases(ex. home & work)...buyer beware!
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Summary: TT ONLY WORKS ONE WAY, THEIR WAY, NOT YOURS
Review: I loved my Quicken and Turbotax for over 10 years but not likely a future customer. I read the reviews but because I was a happy past user and wanted to import about a dozen last years info I purchased it anyway. I had shared mine with my family in the past but thought I could live with activation. After all, they can just come over and do their taxes on my machines. Intuit still won't sell any more and we follow their rules. BUT IT IS MUCH WORSE! BELIEVE THE REVIEWS. I finally got it to work but had to reconfigure my network and how I print and how I connect to the internet JUST FOR THIS!! It only works (?) if you have the simplest basic setup or can switch to it. AND WHO KNOWS WHAT SECURITY HOLES THIS C-DILLA WILL OPEN FULL TIME.
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