Comments on: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008

By: Jerald B. Gartman

Jerald B. Gartman — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Turbo Tax for Home and Business is an easy to use product that makes doing taxes a snap. From year to year it works as advertised.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: J. Fischer

J. Fischer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:06:14 +0000

I’ve used Tax Cut and it was “O.K.”, but not super easy like Turbo Tax. If you have a 1099 and a more write off’s you need Turbo Tax. It’s the easiest to use by a far and I haven’t had any issues with it. Most of the people complaining here are mad about the price, but when you compare that to $1,200 dollars you would have to pay an accountant – the price is reasonable. The fact that people are mad about the price just proves they love this software and can’t do taxes without it. It’s quality software and it’s worth the increase over the “cheap” stuff.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Stanley Kimani

Stanley Kimani — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:50:32 +0000

Poor customer service – estimated delivery date was 1/22/09. Product was not shipped until almost four weeks later. Had product returned…Will never purchase Amazon online stuff again unless I have all the time in the world to wait.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: ChapinCinci

ChapinCinci — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:46:36 +0000

Just reading other reviews and I noticed a trend among the angry, 1 star reviews: All but two of eight eventually mention that they wish they’d used Tax Cut. Hmmm. Makes me wonder just how objective these are.

I’ll give my 3 star rating based upon my past years of using TurboTax and will keep looking for other, perhaps more objective, feedback. Will probably end up back with TurboTax if they price increase does get cutback as mentioned.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: H. SCHMIDT

H. SCHMIDT — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

1. THE PRODUCT PRICE HAS GONE UP DRAMATICALLY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS AS NOTED BY OTHERS.

2. I TRIED TAX CUT (IT WAS A LOT CHEAPER) WHEN IT WAS NEW , BUT THE TURBO TO TAX CUT TRANSFER WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. HAS ANYONE DONE A TURBO/TAX CUT CHANGE DURING THE LAST TAX SEASON? WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?

3. INTUIT ALLOWS USERS TO EFILE FOR FREE ON BOTH FED AND STATE RETURNS WITH THEIR ONLINE SOFTWARE. HAS ANYONE TRIED THIS OPTION BEFORE? WHAT ARE THE RESULTS? MY CONCERN IS BEING AT THEIR MERCY TO A GREATER EXTENT THAN THE CD/DOWNLOAD.

4. ACCCORDING TO THEIR WEBSITE. FOR CDs/DOWNLOADS, THEY STILL CHARGE $18 FOR STATE RETURNS AS LAST YEAR. LOOKS LIKE THE FED EFILING IS FREE.

5. I’VE CONTINUED USING TURBO BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL HASSLES WITH OTHER PRODUCTS. I’M STILL SATISFIED WITH THEIR PRODUCT DUE TO LONG TERM FAMILIARITY THAT HAS MADE ME AWARE OF ITS SHORTCOMINGS AND QUIRKS NOT UNLIKE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.

6. SO THE QUESTION: IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER OUT THERE?
Rating: 4 / 5