TurboTax Deluxe + eFile 2008
- Prepare and print unlimited federal returns; e-file up to five federal returns (per IRS guidelines) at no additional charge
- Includes free federal efile — receive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as few as 8 days
- Everything you need to easily do your tax return–asks easy questions customized to your situation, puts your answers on the correct IRS forms, checks for errors
- Searches for more than 350 deductions, including mortgage interest, education, and medical expenses, to get you the biggest refund–guaranteed
- TurboTax is the only tax software to include both e-filing and audit support with every federal return
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I reluctantly bought TurboTax this year because I have the opportunity to evaluate the data to shift from previous years. I have a lot of support details. Each year, the TurboTax “improvements to maintain” backwards. This year, if sufficient detail to support the shift, they are mixed – the last line of the first line. Other improvements year were no better. I ordered the purchase of state forms in this year because I finally have it on TurboTax, and then go to an accountant to clarify things. Next year I will organize my paper and go directly to the bookkeeper. A wonderful book that is both moving to mediocrity. Sad.
Rating: 5.1
I used TT since the 1980s, when he was 5 1 / 4 inch floppy disks probably before some of these so called programmers are not even born.
2008 Deluxe is the biggest piece of s ** t I have ever seen.
Can not access the forms directly, constantly leads you to bad places, [. . . ]. I designed and built computer systems and also has a lot of software written and what the idiots are now running the asylum, they need to try to use the product they are designed. Most software engineers do not make the effort to do on what the user needs to look to tap into the program. What a shame TT joined the ranks of the very stupid and incompetent.
Rating: 5.1
I tried to change my 2008 again, and wasted my time. It was so simple back a few years.
Rating: 5.1
[UPDATE 12/04/2009: Added my review of the product TT Deluxe on the subject in case someone is thinking of downloading this software in the last minute before the tax deadline. ]
[12/03/2009 UPDATE: For those who deduct mortgage interest and wondered whether and how they attached to TN, please read the comments of reviewing the current status and information on handling Intuit be generated that these large errors SOFTWARE CAUSES NOT FORM 6251 Filed / and low taxes owed possible. ]]
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[18/02/2009 EXAMINATION: I am a lawyer and my wife is an accountant, and we hours spent reverse engineering and software problems confirm TurboTax (with fictitious numbers) last night once again find that the brain is the trust in TurboTax us a defective product. I used TurboTax since 2005 (only for aspects of spreadsheet), and now that the IRS a free online spreadsheet filing regardless of their income (see new "forms" on the IRS Free File Web site), this is officially using the last year I TurboTax. Hooraahhh! Every year, I found many errors in the software (mortgage interest deductions and deferrals that are not completed correctly, for non-cash donations such as from the IRS to calculate AMT credits, and now another problem is described here), and how many of you, every year I write about a problem, I get one of their generic, stupid answers to some low-level non-lawyer who does not know of the tax code. As in previous years, I spend more time in the beta test of their software bugs to do my tax return. This year I have just calculated and used all my data on our 2008 return, but I can not produce for TurboTax (if I can not start dominating everything ... This lead to other problems) Form 6251 required years for the AMT, so that I actually e-file my return. Unlike most people we are trying our hand back from the IRS forms paper, instructions, publications and tax regs (again, my woman is a tax lawyer), then we are at the entry to TurboTax e-file. . . and as this year, I still find major problems in their software. For example, thousands of Americans claim a mortgage interest deduction in Schedule A, they are difficult not because of the way, TurboTax, to distinguish between debt and home equity debt right Home acquisition in the E. g. mortgage refinances that a primary component of the cash-out are calculated and because of the lack of direction in its menus to the need, the average mortgage balances. Generic interview TurboTax only refer you to the IRS publication (s) each told me that she had no time to do this (they tell me that the reason why they bought the software to begin So not in the pub, regs or code) look like. . . Even my lawyer friends use that do not relate to the pubs Turbo tax figure of their mortgage, on average, and says instead that they simply say everything is on their 1098 mortgage interest statements (wrong!). TurboTax could easily correct many years of failure in their software by hiring a tax consultant and programmer in the same type of interview questions and worksheets that are in Publication 936 to add. But for some reason, after years of making this complaint, they still do not. Separate and apart from this problem, now I see this year is another big mistake in the software (see below) that I wonder how many reporters are not mortgage interest, including Form 6251 for AMT (AMT even if they must, the form must be attached nor / e-filed in many cases). As I tell all my friends if you do not learn the basics of taxation and tax manually check at least a little, you'll get in trouble if we rely solely on any version of TurboTax. . . as I have found that TurboTax has hurt my taxes every year (2005, 2006, 2007 and now 2008). [This is absolutely true. Every year my wife and I had to cancel and / or spend days, requires about Intuit patches, etc.] complain course, I hope that everyone here knows that all these people who say ‘TurboTax is Easy and Great “in their five star ratings are often the worst kinds of resources is based on an assessment of whether this software for your money (and more importantly, time). . . how, and how can we criticize cheerleader, if the software works properly if they do not understand what should happen as taxes in a given situation? If you read all the comments, you will often see the to do most of the critical comments of people who demonstrate the knowledge of the TurboTax tax. . . These people seem much more reliable for me. Many of these comments five-star fully by the fact that they can be discounted from people who never verify a CPA or attorney that their so-called “simple, written as simple wonderful tax returns” were in fact also done by the software interview. As I said, now that it is not necessary to your income line on the IRS Web site with their worksheet file free tax forms completed (mark new option this year!), I will leave of wasting $ 30 – $ 60 per year on this program that my wife and I have the beta test for several days. And you can too. Believe me, as a lawyer, are your best options for your taxes: (a) the tax code to learn just enough to let you know what to do, as control, with each run interview questions (and if you do, you can Now with the IRS “forms” and e-file for free to pay the IRS website), or (2) a little more and the use of an expert accountant or lawyer. When your instinct tells you, without a doubt, no software alone, as if by magic, the kind of things right for you, even worse, that it is wrong, after so much time lost in many cases. The loss of so much of its time to beta test this product is simply outrageous. [And to buy while waiting for the software is simply not good that last year, I received the patches up to date in April!] Absolutely unfair that product continues to dominate the market if the IRS / Treasury should simply will get away with this all-Intuit lobbying in Washington DC every year, and should instead develop “forms” with a series of interview questions as a free base, Virginia and other states to make available online.
correctly For details of the problem not on Form 6251, if you are interested, here is my detailed review of this debacle of a thread on TurboTax Live Community. [Read also the comments attached to this post FOR MY from 03.12.2009 on how that mistake was glaring, and the comments Handling and opinion to Intuit will be updated. ]
Live Community post the following:
FORM 6251 was not large error in TurboTax Deluxe 2008
My wife and I are lawyers (it is a tax consultant), and once your software is being said, I do not need to submit to Form 6251, when in fact I am in the required form 6251 instructions to form a 6251, if I (even if I never put AMT this year, the form must still be created and attached) back.
< , br /> I am required to attach Form 6251, because with the instructions: “The sum of Form 6251, 28.09 lines is negative, and the line 32 is greater than line 35, if Do not be the 9-28 line. “In my case, our home mortgage interest deductible under the regular tax this year because all of our home equity debt (which is used for investment) of less than 100K, so we do not need to answer questions TurboTax (under the regular tax) for investment interest expense (for example, because we claim all know that mortgage interest can the interest, we do not and need not repeat as investment interest expense, because the product is used only for investment be). For example, TurboTax does not correctly generate a form 4952 for the regular tax rate.
However, under the AMT, I need to give the values on lines 4 and 9 of Form 6251 the interest back on home equity debt add to my income and subtract your AMT income, AMT investment interest expense. I know it’s essentially a wash, but do not exclude myself from the obligation to file Form 6251. Why is not the trigger and TurboTax E-file Form 6251 in this case? Moreover, a form of TurboTax AMT-4952 (for my own reference, of course) file, but it does not generate either.
it is obvious that the survey TurboTax can not handle a situation where you do not ask for interest expenses in the amount of investment in the world of the regular tax rate (because they considered that for all home-equity debt), but then you have the AMT tax demand world. Please fix this ASAP.
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You guys screwed up! Why should I beta test your software !?!?!? Each year
I sent you a detailed problem on the form 6251 are not generated. It turns out that at the beginning of the questionnaire from the AMT, it is a mistake on your form 6251 spreadsheet program. In response to the question of the AMT, “Tell us your mortgage interest when I entered a lower value eligible for interest on mortgages (compared to the value of the home mortgage interest from my regular tax Schedule A), then the software is not for everyone fit “home mortgage interest generated in the table (and in line 4 of Form 6251). So, do not in 6251, when in fact it is required by the instructions for Form 6251st
< br /> In addition, in recent years, there was always a matter of TurboTax, which will then prompt you to adjust all capital expenditure of the interest that you may be able to claim under the AMT, if necessary, the interest in be used in the early events, in order not to invest (and therefore could be exempted on line 9 of Form 6251). “br />
Shame on you TurboTax. I can not even correctly file my tax return this year, until you solve this problem. I wonder how many people have already filed their taxes without Form 6251, even though they were required to do so (regardless of whether they are AMT Form 6251 must be resolved even in such cases).
Rating: 5.1
In 2007 I bought Office Max, Turbo Tax Premier version for approximately $ 60 It includes the state of files. The program is easy to use. It was not import in a position to data from my financial institutions.
In 2008, I bought from Amazon, Turbo Tax Deluxe version for $ 40. An interesting feature is that it automatically check for updates and download a higher quality and new forms of release. It was asked $ 30 for first version of Turbo Tax, so that investment process. Then he wanted only $ 40, download the forms of the state. Then he said to $ 20 to the State e-file wanted.
The program has bugs: Sometimes, it must calculate the right price to sell shares, fill in the whole process start again, and then fixed and the price of a share. I also had trouble sending e-file because of a strange error message: “The tax identification number is estimated. Now it has been estimated correctly. I could not understand why the program has had a problem with this area. I changed several times I have saved the file, I have closed the program, I open again without success.
I not found anything in the Help menu to correct this error. Through trial and error, he came to a right mouse button on the field and it was an interesting option: “Take the estimates. So basically this is the field estimate, “” flag and if it is set to True, the program refuses to electronic file. So I marked the area of the United Nations and the program was the electronic file will be successfully completed.
If such a flag could be useful in certain situations not tell the customer from the outset of this, they have a hard time.
Rating: 5.1