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Summary: No Problems here!
Review: People seem to be reporting a lot of problems. This surprises me since I had NONE under W2000. I've always liked TaxCut and this year the program is even better. Quick and easy to use, it took me 1/2 the time to finish that it did last year. Online help is improved and the integration with the state package is better this year also.I would reccomend this to anyone and do.
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Summary: Get rid of the bugs
Review: Product was not user friendly. Way to many bugs. I will go back to Turbo-Tax
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Summary: Jeez
Review: Program actually worked OK, but then refused to save what it had done, crashed, and made me start over. The state portion of this program is pretty lame. The whole idea of buying the state portion was to let someone else do my legwork. I guess they did tell me that I might qualify for a bunch of different credits. But they didn't have information on any of them. They didn't even provide a link to the state website where I could research them for myself -- and that was especially weak, since all it took in the case of this particular state was a quick trip to Yahoo! to find the right webpage. Also, their updater worked OK for the federal portion, but froze on the state portion. Next time I'll try a competitor's program.
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Summary: Buggy from the first moment
Review: Summary: After 2 hours of grief and frustration It seems that I got State to work. Tech service indicated that they did not have a way to verify that my State installation was ok, without messing up my State filling. They say, complete Federal and then start State and you'll see if it works... if it doesn't, install it again... (very bothersome)
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I used this program last year due to bugs in TurboTax that I used previous year. I bought TaxCut again this year, and after installing the Federal, and downloaded the State for WinME the download did not complete first, then It completed. Then it did not want to install, the error An I/O error ocurred .... and I had to delete all files in temp directory and shut down all aplications from the task manager. After doing this several times... I got it to install. Then when I try to run Federal, another error: "A required Dll ... was not found"... Going back to the web site and indicated that I have to update the sofware... finally I did and it seems to have installed Ok.
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Summary: No valuable Help, Questionable calculations
Review: TaxCut Deluxe 2003. In filling out the Interviews, this app stops with my 1099-MISC at Box 7, with error requiring a code.
But no where could I find a hint as to what the code may be.
The app suggested I refer to an IRS Publication xxxxxx! If I had time to get all the IRS publications, I would not need a tax software application!
I decided to continue, by omitting the two 1099-MISC documents, and see what happened. Well at the end it calculated a very nice refund....
But, I went out and purchased TURBO TAX 2003 and re done the whole thing. The 1099-MISC Box 7 had no error issues, and when I completed the filing, TURBO TAX 2003 came up with a lot less refund. The two 1099-MISC's I omitted in TaxCut 2003 totaled $1600. So there is no way that would have resulted in some $2000 less in my refund!
TaxCut Deluxe 2003 is a waste of money in my opinion.
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Summary: If this program can do it, you can probably do it yourself
Review: TaxCut is an OK piece of tax software if your taxes are not complicated. My income consists of a W-2, some interest statements, some dividends, and some capital gains/losses. For the most part, it handles this no problem. The software seemed to really lack in the area of educational tax credits. TaxCut is really vague about tuition assistance programs and when and when not to claim the tax credit. If you get into not so common areas, such as married couples that worked and lived in separate states for part of the year, forget it! For fun, I tried to give myself some of the uncommon tax credits, and the software was almost no help. I pretended to be eligible for some alternative energy tax credit and the software told me to fill in the form myself, no questions, no hints, and no easy access to the IRS publication (I had to open another screen and go back and forth) If your taxes are straightforward for the most part, feel free to use the software, but if you are experiencing unique circumstances for the year, go to a professional.
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Summary: Works pretty good, 1 problem
Review: Taxcut pulled in my small business depreciation tables from last year's return, and Turbotax would not. I really didn't want to re-enter all of the info. TaxCut worked well with the following exception. At one point, it just started to crash when working in the schedule C. I had to uninstall and re-install, no problems since it was reloaded. This problem did not affect the saved tax return (luckily). I am running WinXP.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointing!
Review: The two main reasons I purchased this software was because of cost in comparison to Turbotax and the reputable name of H&R Block. Never have I been more wrong! I should have read the reviews here first before wasting my money. Plus, I should have known better than to go with something I've never used before. The program would not save my updated tax forms so when I checked for errors the same errors always came up. Yes, I could have called H&R Block for assistance, but it would have cost me even more money and I felt I had spent enough already. At least I get 5 bucks back. I wouldn't even attempt to GIVE this program to anybody. The ONLY reason I gave it one star was because I was able to fill in the forms on my computer and print them off to send to the IRS. Plus, I downloaded itsdeductible from the internet which was extremely helpful in itemizing charitable donations. Next year I'll buy Turbotax. I have used Quicken since 1999 and KNOW that Intuit is a reputable company.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointing!
Review: The two main reasons I purchased this software was because of cost in comparison to Turbotax and the reputable name of H&R Block. Never have I been more wrong! I should have read the reviews here first before wasting my money. Plus, I should have known better than to go with something I've never used before. The program would not save my updated tax forms so when I checked for errors the same errors always came up. Yes, I could have called H&R Block for assistance, but it would have cost me even more money and I felt I had spent enough already. At least I get 5 bucks back. I wouldn't even attempt to GIVE this program to anybody. The ONLY reason I gave it one star was because I was able to fill in the forms on my computer and print them off to send to the IRS. Plus, I downloaded itsdeductible from the internet which was extremely helpful in itemizing charitable donations. Next year I'll buy Turbotax. I have used Quicken since 1999 and KNOW that Intuit is a reputable company.
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Summary: Going back to Turbo Tax
Review: This is the first year I have used this software and I am completely unsatisfied with the entire program. Throughout the tax preparation the program would abruptly shutdown or perform an 'illegal operation'. Next to try to correct a mistake or update something on the return is not user friendly at all. I did update a few things such as the address to my daycare, but the program would not save the changes, so I was forced to print out the return and white out the section and write in the update. Also, when it came time to printing even more problems, the program would lock up my printer ad I was forced to shut down the system several times. I highly do not recommend this product. I have used Turbo Tax in the past, but I decided to go with this sketchy program. Yes it is cheaper than Turbo Tax, but never again I will fork out the doe and get a program that actually works and is user friendly. If I could give negative stars for the rating I would.
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