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Summary: Taxcut Import TurboTax files
Review: This is my first year to use Taxcut. I switched due to the spyware additions to TurboTax. Taxcut does import Turbotax files. For those of you taht have had problems with this, here are the steps that you must take to acomplish the task. Execute Taxcut, Click File, New, then Next 3 times. Check Load Last Year's Return from Taxcut or TurboTax. Click next.Select (place dot) in TurboTax, Click "Load Last Year's Information". Browse to location of TurboTax files and select the tax document.Taxcut does not compare with TurboTax for ease of use.
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Summary: Good enough for me
Review: I've used TurboTax for 8 years but have switched to TaxCut this year due to the spyware and activation requirement in TT. (See reviews on TurboTax) I'm glad I'm using TaxCut. I've had no issues with it, its just as intuitive as TT (pun intended), and it costs less. My hard disk crashed big time yesterday and I decided to replace the PC. If I would have bought TT, I would have had to buy another copy just to get it installed on the replacement PC (or spend just as much on long distance calls to Intuit support). That's reverse software piracy. Not so with TaxCut, I had it re-installed and finished my taxes in no time. Buy TaxCut (or anything other than TurboTax) and save yourself some needless aggravation.
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Summary: TurboTax convert to TaxCut
Review: Since Intuit's has expressed such contempt for their customers with this years release of unannounced spyware and their legendary absence of customer support, I felt compelled to make the switch to TaxCut, although with some reluctance. Not to worry!! TaxCut operates very much like TurboTax, but without the headaches. Being a first time user I found some areas a little confusing, since it is a different product. I will definitely stay with TaxCut next year. Next to go is Quicken. Intuit has shot themselves in the foot.
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Summary: Very bad experience w/ TaxCut; went back to TurboTax
Review: After using TurboTax for several years, decided to save a few $$ and try TaxCut. I was expecting a modest tax refund, and TaxCut ended up saying I was *OWING* several thousand. Went to IRS site, downloaded forms and did things manually and it showed a refund. After several failed attempts, downloaded the latest update for TaxCut, and now it showed the same refund as my manual calculations (I didn't change ANYTHING in my entered numbers, and had already installed a TaxCut update a couple of weeks earlier). OK. Tried to file electronically. First TaxCut gave me several warnings about my numbers -- turns out it was FRACTIONAL pennies - I was 1/2 cent below its calculation for FICA and some other things <sigh>. Got past that and tried to complete filing. After 6 failures connecting to their server, I decided to buy TurboTax. TurboTax downloaded, installed fine, data entry was easy, it showed same refund I'd calculated, and the electronic filing was fast and trouble-free. I'll never try TaxCut again. TurboTax is worth the few extra $$.
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Summary: The Way to Go!
Review: I was a refugee from TurboTax this year, after the booby-trapped installation program blew up mid way, ant TT tech support didn't pick up my call after an hour. Nuff said! Tax Cut is really much improved over what it was several years ago when I last used it. The import from TT went without a hitch, and after updating the software from the internet, it did a really nice job. Audit worked without a hitch, very user friendly "go to" function which shows what schedules you did complete, which are pending, and which are not used.
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Summary: Tax Cut is ok, but has some problems
Review: Following the advice I found here on Amazon.com, I switched from
TurboTax to TaxCut. This was based on the installation of SPY
software by TurboTax- I liked the performance of that product. A previous review mentioned that TurboTax does not have toll-
free support. Neither does TaxCut. It's a toll number as well. The main problem I had with TaxCut was in importing information
from Quicken 2002. All the information got there, but it was
not properly separated, the way it had been in TurboTax: Multiple charitable donations were all lumped together, and the
organization names were not imported- last years were used,
and were all empty except for the top one, where the total
was put. More important, earning information from two employers was
lumped under one W2. This had implications for excess FICA.
When I called tech support, I was told the obvious- "you have
to enter the information in by hand to two separate W2 forms".
And "we have no plans to fix this". So, that's tech support,
and import compatibility with Quicken, TaxCut style. In general, navigation from numbers to the sources of those
numbers (forms, worksheets, etc.) is better with TurboTax
than it is with TaxCut. All that said, it's still worth using a slightly inferior
product if TurboTax is going to insist on installing SpyWare
on my computer.
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Summary: Do not use this software - it's a waste of money and time!
Review: I read the reviews of Turbo Tax this year, and since there were so many people disappointed with the product, I decided to try Tax Cut. What a mistake!! I've spent more time fixing the errors that this program created than all of the time that I've spent doing taxes using Turbo Tax in the last several years. It does not bring over all of the information when you import from last year's return. If you uncheck a question, it does not automatically uncheck the rest of the items that are related to the question. It does not give you all of the correct options that the forms have. If I had not been familiar with doing taxes and had no idea what my end result would be, I would have paid $$$ in taxes instead of getting the $$$$ refund that I was supposed to receive. The software is faulty and there are too many glitches in the program. I am throwing out this c.d. and will go back to my trusty and easy to use Turbo Tax!
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Summary: Switched from TurboTax, couldn't be happier
Review: I've had problems with TurboTax in the past. TurboTax 2001 would crash periodically during updates, and there was other flaky behavior as well (a "yes" button that behaved like a "no" button for example). After reading the reviews of TurboTax 2002 and the included spyware (and YES IT IS spyware, this is not a myth), I was happy to try TaxCut instead. It imported my 2001 TurboTax information without any problems, and I completed my taxes without any glitches. Combine this with the cheaper pricetag, and I can safely say I am very happy I made the switch. In fact, I'm telling everyone I know to do the same, as I think it's important to send a message to Inuit LOUD AND CLEAR that adware and spyware cannot be tolerated.
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Summary: Can't beat it!
Review: I've tried both products. I am sticking with TaxCut for the price, performance and support advantages over TurboTax. I got a better refund with TaxCut too. I haven't encountered the same problems as "A software user from Foster City" has. Downloads and updates work fine for me - even through a proxy server. Do you work for Intuit? The reviewers (WSJ, PCMag) had more problems with Turbo than TaxCut. At least the "family license" for TaxCut enables fair use. Is Intuit in dire financial need that they have to squeeze every last drop of cash out of their users with C-Dilla?
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Summary: Good enough, but can get confusing
Review: I have not yet used the 2002 edition, but I have used previous editions for the last three years. It is pretty good software, and the first year it caught a deduction I missed that saved me a couple hundred bucks. My only complaint is that it is not straight forward to go back and make changes to sections that you have completed -- it can be quite confusing. I will pay for it again this year, but you would think that software used by this many people would have more than two competitors. I was hoping for a <$10 program that would read info from my last year's Tax Cut data and provide a state return as well, but I couldn't find one this year.
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