Intuit TurboTax Deluxe for Tax Year 2007

TurboTax Deluxe- '07

Strengths: Save hours of work

Weakness: Too many solicitations for upgrades.

Have used TurboTax in the past- '07 TurboTax was as effortless in its use, and extremely productive! I am not surprised- this makes tax preparation a breeze (asuming you have all documentation and receipts available.) Fantastic product.

Turbo Tax Deluxe only works on OS 4 or higher!

Strengths: No strengths.

Weakness: Does not work on OS 3.9 or lower. Does not support filing for a Trust (1041)

When H&R Block in 2005 dropped TaxCut for the Mac, I turned to the only Mac tax software on the market: Turbo Tax, which I used in 2005 and 2006. I found it reasonably good. So I pre-ordered the 2007 version and received the CD in the mail in mid-December. Yesterday (2/15/07) I installed it and tried to open it. No luck! I went online to their website and learned that TT for 2007 will only work...

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TurboTax 2007

Strengths: Makes an unpleasant task much easier

Weakness: Price

I have used TurboTax for many years and it certainly simplifies a very painful task. At one point I used an accountant but it took almost as much work to gather the data for him as it does to enter into TurboTax. Documentation and on-line help are generally good. My major complaint is the price keeps going up year after year for software you only use once!

Another great Turbo Tax product!

Strengths: Easy to use.

Weakness: Price.

Unfortunately, it seems like every year the price on TurboTax products keeps going up and up. I remember when the Deluxe version was only like $29. :( Regardless, this is another great product from TurboTax. Federal and state in one box. Step by step instructions. So easy to use!

The fee is getting ridiculous

Strengths: TurboTax is a great product and makes tax filing much easier

Weakness: Errors can occasionally be introduced when you jump around. It's best to go from start to finish in order.

TurboTax is the best tax-prep software on the market. Unfortunately, Intuit knows that. They keep jacking up the prices, not just on the software, but the add-ons as well. e-filing is now $17.95 per return ($35.90 if you e-file your state return)! As far as I can tell, intuit has a cost of about $0 for that. If you buy a product without a state return included, watch out. the price for an add-on...

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Turbotax Deluxe with State

Strengths: Is easier than doing taxes manually. Prevents math errors. Allows importing of brokerage information that can save days of work.

Weakness: Support is horrible. Takes forever to reach them and then you get incorrect information. This has happened for past 3 years.

For an average tax filer, using Turbotax is much easier than trying to fill out forms and follow printed instructions. However, for my complex taxes that run more than 20 pages, every year there is a bug that takes me many hours to resolve. For example, last year I tried a simple correction to the taxable interest I received from a broker, and without any indication Turbotax allocated the...

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Great way to do your own taxes

Strengths: Very clear and easy to follow. Made doing my own taxes super easy.

Weakness: None.

I've been scared of doing my own taxes for years but I finally decided I'd try it this year. TurboTax make it easy! When I was done I was so relieved and I couldn't believe that was all there was to it.

TurboTax Deluxe

Strengths: Easy to use; imports previous year information; imports your tax information from external sources (like brokerage, bank, payroll); great assistance with donations to charities.

Weakness: None

I did my taxes by hand for many years. But once I started investing and having more complicated income it became very difficult. I settled on TurboTax 10 years ago and have been using it ever since. This year was the first time I was able to import information directly from my brokerage. It was fantastic! And the charitable deductions now use eBay to assign values to clothing and other items. The...

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turboTax deluxe

Strengths: has steadily improved; excellent prompts for necessary information; easy to return to any portion of the filing process to edit or update entries

Weakness: "instant chat" with a computer much inferior to live chat with person--very limited use

Biggest dissapointment: Intuit has diminished the "deluxe" version to force users with rental property to puchase a more expensive version of their software. Since they have a captive audience (one must purchase new copies of the app yearly) and are genning excellent returns for this "case cow", they are destroying all user loyalty. They fail to acknowledge what one can learn from their helpful...

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Intuit TurboTax support not responsive to bugs

Strengths: Can't think of any at this point.

Weakness: Intuit's tech support and their methods to allow (or not in this case) users to report bugs and get them fixed has again made it difficult to get the taxes done.

I found and reported using their support page "email" method a problem related to "view forms" printing that produces an error dialog with error code 113. I got a non-responsive email reply and when I responded to that e.mail I got a reply that says "You have reached an unmonitored e-mail box. If you need assistance, please visit our support website at support.turbotax.com...." I went to the...

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