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Summary: Intuit stupidity and greed will cost them sales
Review: Once again a successful company has made a terrible error in the name of fraud reduction. Why would anyone purchase a tax program that will be unusable if a new computer is purchased during the 3 year tax return amending period? INTUIT, worry about the accuracy of your product and not so much about fraud!!! I have 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" Turbo Tax discs that go back to 1990 that I would still be able to use today. But I won't have TurboTax 2002. I will have TaxCut 2002 instead. Hopefully Block Financial won't be as stupid as Intuit.
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Summary: I am going to return the TT that I already bought
Review: I tried to install the software and it told me to call their help line to get it activated. It will work only on one machine and I have to buy an additional copy if I want to use it on my home as well as a work computer.Switching to some other tax software will make sense and I am returning the one I already bought. Will be writing a nastygram to Turbo Tax.
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Summary: Doesn't fill all forms out correctly
Review: Besides the anti-piracy policy, which is so much worse than anything I've run into before, it didn't even fill out all of my forms correctly. Why would anyone buy this product if it can't fill out a Schedule SE automatically? When it filled out all of the tax forms for my home-based business (I file a 1040, Schedule A, Schedule C, and Schedule SE), it didn't even fill out the schedule SE correctly. I had to go in and override the values, which weren't filled in at all! This means that if I had relied on TurboTax and not known what I was doing, or not proofread it, it would have definitely triggered an audit, and I would have ended up with a delayed refund. The mistake was over a hundred dollars difference in my final refund. I just wanted to add this, because everyone else seems to have an issue with activation, and there are other problems with relying on this software.
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Summary: "Mission Impossible" with Intuit's TT This Year
Review: After reading most of the posted reviews (200+ at last count), here is what I would do if you received a free UNSOLICITED copy of a CD for TT from Intuit in the mail as I have as a past user. 1)Place CD in microwave oven on top of an empty coffee cup.
2)Set timer to 5 seconds...and I do mean only 5 SECONDS.
3)Push start button and watch the fireworks.
4)Send the CD back to Intuit in the orginal FREE container.
5)Claim the CD SELF DESTRUCTED before you had a chance to install your "Mission Impossible" tax software. Needless to say, Ituit's Turbo Tax software product this year is not for me and in the years to come because of their "HIDDEN AGENDA" with the required Macrovision/C-Dilla activation. I guess, I'm just extremely frustrated with a software publisher that I believed in over the last 7 years and now is trying to pull a fast one without the customer's knowledge. I would like to suggest TaxCut as an alternative although there are several other opitions out there as well. Hopefully, next year will not be such a pain as this year has been in determining what software to use....
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Summary: safecast
Review: I will not install my purchased copy of Turbotax until there's a way to run it without safecast, which installs a low level driver that chews up memory even when I don't run Turbotax. If I had not already opened my copy of Turbotax, I would return it.
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Summary: Had too many crashes to take chances on TT limitations!
Review: I am glad I read these reviews. I have been using TT for at least 8 years now. I love the program, but two years ago, as I was preparing for an audit, my system crashed. Luckily, I have always put TT on 2 systems for just this reason. I put the last saved copy in and was able to print it out in time for my audit. No way, I can give that up. I often work on my laptop while traveling or just in my "quiet" space in the house. Then I go to my office and grab the file off the network and print it. If I can't do that...it's worthless! Guess I'll have to check out Tax Cut...Maybe buy some of their stock too and sell off my Intuit stock!
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Summary: Has everyone read Intuit's support page?
Review: I've been using TT for about 5 years now and been reading the reviews with growing concern so visited Intuit's website for more info. All of you should poke around there to see if its as bad as you claim. (No, I'm not an Intuit employee).
Here's one bit of info for those of you worried about ever printing etc from another PC: (single URL, it may wrap)
http://www.turbotaxsupport.com/default.asp?platform=1&formName=&pd=&fs=&ver=&sku=&id=&DocID= Here's some more text from another link at their site:
"For each subsequent reinstallation (for example, if you give your CD-ROM to a friend or change hard disks), TurboTax needs to be reactivated if the user wants to perform any of the following actions:
Print the return from within the program
File the return electronically
Save the return as a .pdf file" AND "Do I need to activate TurboTax again if I reinstall the program?
Whether or not you need to reactivate TurboTax (that is, purchase an additional product license) depends upon your particular situation: If you reinstall TurboTax to the same hard disk that it was previously activated on, you do not need to activate it again. If you install TurboTax on another computer on or before October 15, 2003, you need to activate it again only if you want to print from within the program, electronically file, or save your tax return as a .pdf file from that computer. If you reinstall TurboTax after October 15, 2003, you will not need to reactivate TurboTax even if you install TurboTax on a different computer. If you install TurboTax on another computer without activating it, you can view or make changes to your tax return, but you will not be able to print from within the program, electronically file, or save your tax file as a .pdf file from that computer." Now, as for C-dilla and spy ware. That is very annoying. There are many applications out there to clean PCs of malware. Most, if not all, PCs should have something like this installed anyway.
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Summary: TurboTax Deluxe Sucker
Review: I have used TurboTax for a number of years. I loved it. This year they decided to limit you to one PC. When I get my new PC, how am I supposed to open the tax files again? In addition, they now require you to buy the state download which they will then rebate back to you. This is obviously just a scheme to make more money from the interest they earn on my money. It also requires me to spend two times the amount I normally do on tax software.Not a very good plan in my book. If it is like this next year, I will switch to a competitor. I don't know who made these decisions, but they definitely did not put customer service first.
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Summary: TurboTax is an utter failure.
Review: I have used this program for years and years. Never again. Why? 1. The program requires activation which I have no problem with. However the SLIGHTEST change to your computer, add or remove 1 single piece of hardware, repartion a drive etc. and the program ceases to work and requires a call to Intuit. In many cases you have to have a new CD sent to you. 2. The program install a piece of software called C-Dilla without asking you. This program does NOT uninstall when you uninstall TurboTax and basically requires a low-level format of your hard drive to remove. The C-Dilla program causes your CD-RW drive to slow down when it is in use, even when the TurboTax program is uninstalled... forever until your reformat! 3. The program cheat fair use because I like many use my laptop on the road and my desktop at home to complete my return. This is impossible now. I am all for Intuit doing what it can to preserve the fair use of its software. However installing hidden software I can't remove that harms my system performance, and rendering my paid sofware impossible to use if I make a slight change to my system, and finally preventing me from having the convience of working on my return on the road... it is just to much to bear! I switched to TaxCut 2002 and the program is just as good as TurboTax 2002 in terms of tax performance. In 2003 the only way TurboTax will lure me back is if the program is superior in performance to TaxCut, removes all activation systems, and finally lowers its cost to match that of TaxCut which is cheaper.
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Summary: Bad Idea, Intuit
Review: I switched from Quicken 2000 to Money 2003 beginning this year; I did buy TT 2002 Deluxe at Costco for $... bucks less a ...rebate, so I got it cheap. I d/l the state and got it free. I've used Quicken and Turbo Tax software for the last 5 years; no more. I probably won't change computers, so I don't have that problem, rather it's just the idea of it. Apparently Intuit doesn't trust us. If there were not competing software such as H&R Block's Tax Cut (I think it was Kiplinger's a few years ago), I would probably do it by hand. I think Intuit has entered the Microsoft mindset (We own the world, they've got to buy from us). Well, as the baby says: I DON'T THINK SO, BALDY! As someone said earlier, there's got to be a better way to protect piracy than that. Sheesh Pat
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