TurboTax Premier guides you step-by-step through investments and rental property income * Assists with stocks, bonds, mutual funds and employee stock plans * Provides extra guidance for rental property income, expenses and refinancing * Free Federal E-Fileâreceive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as few as 8 days * Plus, includes a download of one TurboTax State product--a $39.95 value
In addition to the well documented price increases, in-your-face suggestive sales pitches throughout the program, and proprietary tax file format which doesn't work with other programs, you may add 'install problems'. Just received my TY '09 Turbotax Premier and it took two hours to install. Got a 'Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP 1 error' right out of the gate. Tried it on another computer with the same results. Check the Intuit website- apparently this is a known problem because the site directs you to verify instal..
I have always used turbotax but this year but they changed their pricing. The package says one free state download. True, you can download one state of your choice. However, you only get to prepare one state only. All additional state preparations are at $39 via download of even the same state. Thus for example, you have two family members living in California. The first person downloads the free California state download. If the second family member, who also needs to file the California state retur..
I have used Turbo Tax since its inception and it does it all. Not too pricey and has saved me a lot of money in H&R Block fees, CPA fees, any other tax preparation method and it does a better job. Much more reliable than "overnight" "once a year" tax preparers. It is also under my control. It has an audit checker and provides all the forms necessary with efiling which takes about two weeks to get your refund. It has direct deposit. User friendly. Interactive. It has it all. They have been doing thi..