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Summary: Had my taxes done in half an hour...
Review: For the vast majority of taxpayers, (i.e. those that do not own a business), figuring your tax really isn't that hard, even on paper. It is just tedious. For these typical taxpayers, there is no significant difference between TaxCut and TurboTax. Since TaxCut is cheaper, that is what I buy. The program, as always, was fairly simple to use; I just filled in the blanks. Doing my associated state return simply involved hitting "Next" about a dozen times. All the blanks were filled for me. By hand, filling the form takes a couple of hours.Including installing the software, my taxes were done in a half hour total. After filing my return, I was infomred it was accepted by the IRS in about 15 minutes. Couldn't be easier.
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Summary: I can't believe Baron gave it #1 rating
Review: The reason I bought TaxCut was reading negative reviews of TurboTax here on Aamazon. Now I know that TaxCut is inferior to TurboTax. Keep your receipt and UPC barcodes so you'll have a chance to use their money-back guarantee! Here is why: 1. Update download fails if you are using HTTP proxy software.
Download cannot be cancelled, and "details" button is always disabled, so you really can't tell if you need the update.
2. GUI feels unnatural for Windows users, menus behave strangely.
3. Text in forms overlaps with numerical entries. Looks like the engineer didn't realize that fonts sizes differ from installation to installation. Biggest drag is that numerical entries often don't fit in their boxes. This is especially annoying and misleading when minus sign is cut off.
4. Impossible to insert entries in the middle of list (for example in Schedule D). This forced me to reenter the whole list of 56 entries because I have missed a few wash sale transactions.
5. Only name of transaction is displayed in list, no dates, even though there is plenty of space. Consequently, it's hard to tell apart transactions in the same security.
6. No way to reorder or sort transactions.
7. Often when you hit enter to continue with next field, input jumps randomly to some previously entered field, rather than advancing to next field.
8. When I tried using mouse to advance to next field that fared even worse, as the whole form would than scroll, making it hard to track my progress through the form.
9. I could not figure out what part of the interview would bring me to Schedule D. Interview seems to be worded so unintuitively, that it's easier to simply fill out the forms. To conclude,
TurboTax CDilla screw-up seems innocuous comparing to the incompetence of people that built TaxCut. I can't believe Baron gave it #1 rating!
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Summary: Made the switch and glad I did
Review: I started using this for the first time this year because of the brain dead shenanigans being pulled by the folks who did TurboTax. I must say right now I am impressed. It mostly looks like any other tax software out there, but I noticed right away that the question/answer session seems to be a lot more well laid out. The questions are easier to understand. Granted, I am no dummy when it comes to finance software, but a lot of people are, and I can see this being a huge advantage for other folks. Probably the best thing though is the price. ...
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Summary: Can't import TurboTax data - wish it could!
Review: Same problem as other user below - can't import last year's TurboTax data. IN fact, this was a problem LAST year as well, I'm shocked they haven't fixed this "little" problem that's keeping their customer base from moving to TaxCut.
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Summary: Bye Bye Turbo Tax
Review: I haven't been entirely happy with TurboTax these last few years, and now that they have crippled their software and bundled persistent spy-ware I have switched to TaxCut. It's better and more user friendly. I wish I would have switched sooner. Shame on you TurboTax.
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Summary: Get this and not TurboTax
Review: I originaly went with Turbotax 4 years ago because it was the premier (not to mention the only one I knew) Tax Software. I was dissapointed. There customer service was extremely lacking, not offering a 1-800 number for me to call with questions (something some don't care about, but is important to me). I stuck with it the second year because I wanted to easily import the previous year. Still had problems but stuck it out. The third year I had to download their state program. They made sure to take my credit card info before I downloaded it. My internet connection was lost, and I had to go through the whole thing all over again. Guess what? That's right- TurboTax billed me TWICE. And, keeping with tradition, they wouldn't give me a 1-800 number. I had to call LONG DISTANCE to get my money back. And when I tried, I got the run around. Enter year four. I certainly had enough of TurboTax, and went with TaxCut. I found it immediately WAY better. Not only do they seem to actually treat me well, but everything I had imported well into their program, and it's just as good, and in some ways, better, than TurboTax ever was. Year five, I go to purchase it again from Amazon. Just out of curiocity I look up TurboTax. All the customers rated it a one star because now they install spyware on your system. Go figure. Par for the course with this company. Everyone is starting to realize what I realized last year. Don't go with TurboTax. Maybe some day they'll wake up and actually realize there's this thing called customer service. But until then, get TaxCut. It's a better program anyway!
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Summary: GOOD BYE TURBO TAX!!!
Review: This is the first year I used TaxCut, after being a loyal paying customer of Turbo Tax for the last 4 years. After reading all the negative reviews for Turbo Tax 2002, I didn't even bother. They have included Spyware with their program as well as having the new horrible activation. If TaxCut never starts using an activation system like Turbo Tax started this year, I will be buying the TaxCut program every year. Good bye Turbo Tax, hello TaxCut!!!
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Summary: TurboTax imports not a problem
Review: After reading the reviews, I noticed someone gave the following false information regarding Turbotax imports, "The program looks for old *.t01 files regardless of whether or not you select to import TaxCut or TurboTax files." This is incorrect, if you select to import from 'Turbotax' it looks for a file with a .TAX extension, and only .T01 for taxcut imports. I've sucessfully imported last years Turbotax return with no problems at all. Overall Taxcut seems excellent, the only downside so far is that you have to pay extra for 'DeductionPro', which helps you work out values for charitable donations.
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Summary: Review of Taxcut Deluxe
Review: I have been using Taxcut for 4+ years and have been delighted with the program. I have gotten much more money back using the recommendations that the software provides and the speed of my return is phenominal, usually in 8-10 days with e-filing and direct deposit. Another plus is that all of the information such as social security numbers etc. are saved from year to year, saving you from having to re-type them every year. The only ( and this is just a very picky point) is the shameless advertisement for other various H & R Block services that they offer,and in usually at a much higher cost than this software. Overall a superior tax filing program that makes doing your taxes easy and (somewhat)painless.
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Summary: 4 stars just for not having TurboTax's awful activation
Review: As a previous TurboTax user I am trying out TaxCut this year. Sorry, this is not a review but a request that if previous TurboTax users are writing a review here please include in your review if you were able to import your TurboTax files. Thanks
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