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Summary: Add me to the list...
Review: ...of users who have used TaxCut for years, but found it to be a major problem this year.I did not have the typical problems of most people who have reviewed the product. It loaded fine, and never crashed. My problems were actual mistakes made by the software. I imported 1099 information automatically, from Fidelity. It turned short term items into long term, and vice versa. It gives you the option to delete some elements that you import, but then it doesn't actually delete them. I had 2 jobs during the year and accidentally over-contributed to a 401(k). It detected this, and fixed it. But I received a 1099-R from Fidelity, and reported that. So I ended up double-reporting the overage, and TaxCut didn't notice. I can also report agreeing with the comments about the user interface. I don't mind the tie-ins to H&R Block. But it's really very confusing and inconvenient to go back and find a topic, and enter into the Interview for it. Next year, I'll try TurboTax.
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Summary: Huge disappointment
Review: After using TurboTax for 2 years with minimal satisfaction, I read reviews on TaxCut and thought I'd try it based on the favorable reviews. What a disappointment - the interview process missed a lot of opportunities to automate input, it wouldn't convert last year's TurboTax files, and when I tried to e-file it failed. I could have gotten over that but the worst was upon failure the message claimed a failure reason to read below, but there wasn't one. After two tries, I ended up printing my return and sending it snail mail.
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Summary: I'm going to try Turbotax
Review: Been using Taxcut Deluxe for 5 years now and found the programs interface very easy to use and stable with windows operating systems.Taxcut 2001 deluxe has the federal and state (which you must purchase or download separately) together in one program which is a plus and the interview is much easier for preparing capital gains and losses in 2001.
BUT, my problem with Taxcut 2001 Deluxe is the program is unstable with windows Me.1- the refund and owe numbers don't line up in the boxes at the top of the screen. 2-Taxcut would add forms or worksheets that you did not used or skipped in the interview.And this would bring up red flags in the final check section for missing information.3- When I tried E-Filing my Fed return after going though all the step ,Taxcut would not allow me to do so. The reason they stated was incorrect.I had to close the program and go though the steps again for the program to E-file my return.
I've been a loyal Taxcut user, but this year Taxcut failed.I'm going to purchase Turbotax Deluxe and try it on my 2001 taxes.If it's better than Taxcut, next year I'm going to have to change my tax preperation software. Come on Taxcut , you have a whole year to get this right.
I have to amend this review and lower my rating to 1 star , If amazon had zero star that would be my rating. I just found out that taxcut added my tax refund check as income. It's non-taxable taxcut.This would give me 300 dollars more on my refund.Thanks for the work I have to do now to amend my tax return.For now on it Turbotax.
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Summary: Get what you pay for
Review: Dear Taxcut, Please refund my purchase price of taxcut. I am not satisfied with the product. The auto install of the upgrade did not work . I download manually after 45 minutes was able to install update. The program will not e-file with warnings, even though I said my W-2 was OK. It or I had problems with 401k and Roth IRA distributions. After 3 hours of work, I have to start over and went to bed at 11:30 so I was late for work. I thought I would give Taxcut a try because I've used Tubotax for years. Going back to Turbotax. The uncluttered part of Taxcut is good, but it has to be clear and work! The help files were too messy also.
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Summary: I'm buying Turbo Tax and starting over.
Review: Don't waste your money. I have used Turbo Tax for four years and decided to try this package this year because of some minor bugs in TT the last two years. TaxCut is amateurish by comparison. Updating or modifying the entries made during the interview is difficult and awkward and may cause the program to crash. It appears the only way to review what you have entered is to call up the forms, as opposed to TT which allows you to pick up at any point along the interview. It didn't handle US Savings Bond Interest previously reported, and it wouldn't print the forms correctly, chopping off about 1/16" on the top and bottom of each form. Capital gains were a problem for it, and the help utility wasn't very helpful in trying to figure out the correct way to input info so it would deal with them correctly. It didn't properly import info from last year's TT return, even though the program said it did. I really don't know whether to believe the results produced are accurate.
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Summary: I am buying it
Review: I bought it in 1999, 2000 and will again this year. It has been the easiest to use and I love how it mimics all the forms. In 1999 I tried one of the 'other' tax software. I been doing my taxes for years and this 'other' tax software left out things and was totally different than the tax forms I had just penciled in. I knew it was wrong and not easy to use. The same day I downloaded Taxcut and presto - the taxes I figured by hand was exactly what Taxcut figured and it even found some of my errors! What a tax tool!!!
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Summary: No valuable Help, Questionable calculations
Review: I bought the Mac OS X version. This software is hideous. Don't even condsider buying it. I took a chance since it was cheaper than TurboTax, and regret it. Incredibly buggy, irritating interface. Some obviously wrong calculations. I haven't even tried some of the other features that other reviewers complain about, but at this point I don't need to see much more to conclude that this is hands down the worst software I have ever bought.
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Summary: Absolute [junk]
Review: I bought the Mac OS X version. This software is hideous. Don't even condsider buying it. I took a chance since it was cheaper than TurboTax, and regret it. Incredibly buggy, irritating interface. Some obviously wrong calculations. I haven't even tried some of the other features that other reviewers complain about, but at this point I don't need to see much more to conclude that this is hands down the worst software I have ever bought.
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Summary: Use this! Don't waste your money at H&R Block!
Review: I bought this software and used it to do my taxes, but for some reason I was unsure about it, so I then went to H&R Block and had them do the taxes afterwards. The difference was $15 and I ended up paying $146 for the service. I recommend paying ...or so for the federal and state packages and doing it yourself. Save that $150 that I wasted! ...
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Summary: Tax Cut not user friendly
Review: I bought this software to use for e-filing Federal & state taxes. I recently moved to California and had to file for 2 states as part-time resident. I thoroughly read the specifications, and all information indicated I could do several states if I bought 2 state software packages. No problem, right? WRONG! Tax Cut state does not allow state e-filing for part-time residents, but it does not say so anywhere! I am writing to HR Block to get a refund, I am not satisfied. After trying to use the software, I ended up printing forms from the state's website and filing via paper forms.
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