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H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State Win/Mac
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CD. All the features and forms included in last year's Deluxe and Premium. The convenience of both federal and state tax software in one purchase. Step-by-step guidance customized to your unique needs. Backed by the experienced tax professionals at H&R Block. Worry-free Audit Support - H&R Block is there to help in the rare event of an audit.
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Customer Reviews
for H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State Win/Mac --- H&R Block
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What a lousy piece of software!
It put me onto the Schedule A, with a state tax deduction worth only $1800, when it should have used the standard deduction of $5350! Told me I owed $800, when in fact I'm due $800 BACK, so that would be a error of $1600! Then it took another 20 minutes to find a cludgey workaround, feel sorry for the people that dont have a good idea of what their taxes should be? So it's back to TurboTax next year, got this sad excuse for a product on the cheap, who knew?
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Not happy that I bought 2006 tax software in 2007
It was my fault for not spotting the fact that this was last year's software. But Amazon should have highlighted this fact or better yet prompte me to make sure I knew it was old software.
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Easy and effective
I've used H&R Block's TaxCut for two years now. It's the best on the market. I will buy this year's version as well. The graphic interface is easy to use. It guides you through the entire process, and if you forget something, or don't have the paperwork you need at a particular point, it allows you to move on and come back to it later.
Make sure you get the state and e-file version. You'll be glad you did. Although, there are options to upgrade as you go along. If you do your own taxes, you can't beat this program.
Even a mathematical lightweight like me can use this program.
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Very Satisfied TaxCut User
I never have used TurboTax so may not have a good point of comparison, but regardless I have used TaxCut exclusively the past 4 or 5 years. I've been pleased with it every year. I actually have a Win 98, a Win 2000, and a Mac, and installed it last year on all units so that I could go back and forth depending on my mood. The data always migrated between systems seamlessly.
I refuse to pay for the privilege of e-filing my taxes and always have simply submitted the print version. As another poster noted, if you submit early, you get your refund quickly anyway. I have also found this to be the case (even when I have submitted later around March it's only taken about 3-4 weeks). Obviously since I usually get a nice return I have an incentive to submit early, but TaxCut at least makes the process as much of a pleasure as paying taxes can be!
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Can Do Multiple Returns
For moderately complex tax returns, I have found TaxCut a little frustrating in places, but it gets the job done at a good price. One nice thing: you can enter and save multiple returns (for your kids, your aunt, or various pro-forma returns) with no hassle.
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Gotta watch this carefully
It did a good job until it ported stock information from Quicken. It ported two copies of each transaction. Lucky I made money in the market, or seeing double the amount would have been a shock.
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works just as well as turbotax for less $$$
taxcut is a little simpler than turbo tax in that the questions are not as specific or detailed. turbo tax is probably better suited for people who are familiar with filling out tax forms. having said that, it does your taxes accurately and costs less. support was great. much better than turbo tax. they seem to care more about service after sale than intuit ever has.
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A reasonable guide to an unreasonable form(s)
Ive used Turbo Tax until last year. I thought for the price I would take a chance on Tax Cut. It was after all a substantial price difference.
Right away I though the learning curve for TaxCut was a little steeper & it seemed I had to actually do some thinking when it was asking me questions. (Oh Darn!) The phraseology was slightly confusing but not overwhelming.
However, I got through it, the return was correct & it wasnt so difficult that I will go back to TT next year. I think TT is a better product that seems to have been thought out more, but that could be that TT has been around for much longer, I believe. Turbo Tax is far more expensive but I dont think the benefits of TT ( at least in my case ) justify the extra cost.
As far as the e-file, I have never used it & dont really care about that.
I just need a sensible guide to doing my senseless tax forms & Tax Cut was a great help & worth the minimal cost.
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Worse than Prior Versions
On the Macintosh side, I don't know what happened to this product during the one year they skipped development (2005 tax year) but I was very disappointed with this year's version. Particularly if you are a business owner or sole proprietor!
In the end there was no harm done because I decided I needed to go to a real accountant anyway for business purposes... but the flow of this year's application was very disjointed and inconsistent IMO. In the past the forward and back functions worked as you would expect (more or less like a browser), but here depending on which page you jump from, you might go from the end of a section back to the end of the last section or beginning of the current, instead of to the last page.
Also my accountant found at least two flaws in the interview flow, and at least one calculation error based on the interview answers. Not recommended at all for 2006 unless you are filing late and work strictly on a W2 basis, with no complex investment or deduction options needed.
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Doing Taxes yourself...
This is an excellient program if you want to do your taxes yourself.
It has an easy to follow instructions and if there is something in one of the section you do not understand, there are helpful explainations and help videos that go in depth into the topic.... I have been using the TaxCut for several years and feel at ease is completing them correctly. One year I decided to go into H&R and have them do it, thinking that they might be able to save me some money, but all they did was input the data like had done for years.
I was annoyed... I'm a single adult that rents and they did not go through any routes (deductions) that could have saved me anything.
Even if you own property, or a small bussiness, all the downloaded information is there and the help files explain everything....
What is even a better, compared to using the written form, as you follow thru the form... the computer automatic skips the sections that you don't need. As you answer the questions, you wind your way thru the complicated process of filing.
Only negative is that you do have to sit and do it yourself, it took me about three hours to complete. But what is great is that you can save it and go back to change something if you feel you made a mistake.
All in all worth the time and money spent...
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Taxcut version seems fine, rebate offer a pain
I have used taxcut for the past 5 years, this version seemed to work without a hitch. Although E-file was no longer free, I bought this one with the Amazon/H and R rebate offer. The rebate process however was not good. I was sent a denial letter stating that i had sent the offer after the postmark deadline. Of course i had not! The denial letter arrived before the deadline, so how could i have sent after the deadline?! Also, working with the Rebate center to resolve the issue was a pain with many delays.
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Easy tax program
Very easy program to do my taxes on. I love it.
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pretty good
This works fairly well for me. It easily downloads the capital gains from Microsoft Money, the interviews are fairly straightforward. However there are a few areas (like foreign tax credit) where it should be automated but isn't. But on the whole it does a nice job, they just need to improve it a little every year then it could be a 5 star item.
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Worth every cent, if it's free
I bought Taxcut this year because it was inexpensive and included business tax forms for my partnership. For the money I guess I'm satisfied with the partnership results, but that's where it ends.
Taxcut for Federal taxes is not integrated with Taxcut for business... ok so what do you want for cheap. But, it also isn't well integrated with the Massachusetts state tax version, leaving me to go figure how to deal with what it calls "special" situations (unreimbursed partner expenses and interest from out of state banks, for example). Overriding form data is painful and the program complains that if I override calculated data I can not e-file (not that I would trust it to e-file my taxes). Form navigation is hopeless. I can only imagine what someone who isn't experienced with tax preparation could accomplish with this mess.
I filed for an extension; now I'm probably going to buy Turbotax to do the actual federal and state returns.
With a deep discount, I would probably purchase Taxcut again for the partnership taxes, because it is slightly easier to use than the Excel spreadsheets I'd been using (but only because I don't have to copy the numbers from the spreadsheets into the forms).
Honestly, you would think there would be some tax software that is better than the non-functional Taxcut without the overblown, fatty and expensive too-many-talking-heads Turbotax alternative!
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First year this program has let me down
I switched to Tax Cut years ago after Turbotax (in 2003) implemented their idiotic validation scheme. I figured I was doing my part to punish Intuit / Turbotax. And for all those years I've been happy with Tax Cut.
Not this year. I found some major bugs which cost me a lot of time. I had my return done, but the numbers were seriously out of whack -- I know I didn't have that much income! Going back through the interview process didn't turn up the source of the added money. Only by checking the actual "Forms" did I find that several copies of 1099-Misc forms were hidden from the interview process, and by adding the same data in non-hidden copies, I was double entering the data. There was no easy way to recover. I eventually had to wipe the installation and start all over.
A call to tech support did absolutely no good. The person on the other end didn't seem to understand the problem with having "hidden" copies of forms going into the calculations. If those are hidden, what else is it doing wrong?
I'm not quite sure how do deal with this next year. Go back to Turbotax? Hope Tax Cut fixes its problems? Or go to a human tax preparer?
Whatver my choice, I'm not looking forward to it.
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Beware!
I tried to use this program to file a very simple return, and it calculated that I owed the state $550 for underpayment, as well as a $230 penalty for late payment.
I tried working through the program several times to find the error. I found that the program was automatically checking boxes that I hadn't checked! I have no idea if that was the cause of the underpayment problem, which I was not able to resolve.
In frustration, I went to [...] and filed my return easily within an hour, with a $140 return from the state rather than a $780 penalty!
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Throw it away, it's bad news
Have just spent 2.5 hours struggling with TC for Mac. Wrong info, bad interviews, uneditable forms, credits missing. (No combo of keys appears to pull up the override feature.) Dangerous. Throw it away, do your taxes by hand or find an accountant.
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Beware and double check your results!!! - This product could cost you much more than $25!!!
This program sucks. I used it last year and thought that it was unwieldy and really confusing (i.e. unlike TurboTax and other programs, there's very little transparency in the system). Then I bought it again this year because the store that I went to was out of Turbotax, and I needed to get my taxes done quickly. This year was even worse than last year - not only was it still unwieldy and irritating, but it gave me figures that simply did not make sense. The results for the federal return were OK, but it gave me figures that would have cost me over $2,000 in taxes that I did NOT owe on my state return. I ended up going online to double check my results using a cheap ($10) online service recommended by the NY state tax website. Within 45 minutes, I cleared the online source, and got results that made far more sense. I have no idea what happened with TaxCut, but I suspect that they may have been missing a field somewhere along the line - this is a problem that has been noted by a number of others in reviews on a variety of sites. I will NOT be buying this product again.
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Taxcut 2006, Federal
Worked fine for standard items. Did not handle Partnership issues completely. Would be good to have a preview of the finished return before printed (maybe this is possible, but I did not find this function).
In general, an easy, straightforward program that gets the job done.
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cheaper is not better
It is probably too late to save anyone from this software but I had to say something about it to someone. There is apparently no way to tell taxcut about it.
I have been using taxcut for several years now after switching from turbotax because of the issue of them installing spyware. I was happy with taxcut until this year. It is defective. I can't even believe it isn't in the news. My taxcut program is missing the "wages" entry on the Schedule C form. It would have been a terrible loss if I had not caught it. I went to their website to get some help or a phone number and neither was available. I can't believe that I have the only taxcut software that is defective but I couldn't find any reference to this problem anywhere. Now I have to go through the whole tax form to make sure it didn't make any other mistakes! I might as well have done my taxes the old fashioned way by hand.
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