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TaxCut 2005 for Business + Business State [Old Version] | ![TaxCut 2005 for Business + Business State [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518AVJSTZ7L._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Block Financial
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.49
You Save: $35.50 (44%)
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 4567
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt 4, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: 1116600-05
Model: 735290101594
UPC: 735290101594
EAN: 0735290101891
ASIN: B000BMBLAU
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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| Features:
| • | Tools to prepare Corporation, S-Corporation, Partnership, Estate & Trust, Non-Profit and Payroll Returns, plus W-2s and 1099s | | • | Whether distribution of income is simple or complex, it’s easy to prepare and print K-1 forms for partners and shareholders. | | • | The Business Tax Planner will assist you in projecting your business earnings and tax liabilities for the next three years. | | • | Quickly prepare and print W-2 and 1099 forms. | | • | Depreciated Entry Screens/Depreciation Calculator. |
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Product Description
TaxCut Business 2005 has the software you rewire to get the most out of your business return. Its customized tools and advice are specifically designed for the small business owner. It also has an improved Schedule C interview, giving you more deductions. Includes all the forms you need to quickly and easily file any federal business return plus as many business states as the consumer needs. Free State tax software included -- no rebate necessary, FREE E-filing, FREE State returns and FREE Tax Advice!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Horrible interface January 21, 2006
David Mintz (Hollywood, CA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I purchased this product to file taxes for my new corporation founded over the past year. I presumed that this product would guide me thru the process smoothly, with intuitive menus and explenations of the tax terminology, but it did no such thing. I should mention I have filed taxes by hand for the past ten years for my personal taxes, so I am not a complete stranger to filing taxes, albeit this was corporate tax, which is quite a different beast. That fact is why I purchased this in the first place - however the screens that prompt you to select from a series of options provide no meaningfull explenation as to what the options mean in english and certianly no pros and cons. Furthermore, I expected this software to integrate seamlesslly with Quickbooks, which it does not support in any shapre or form whatsoever. Run, dont walk, from this software. You are better off using the IRS booklet than this, at least that explainsa lot more than this. I am now going to purchase Turbotax, which works with Quickbooks, and I spoke to several other companies I deal with and they all swear by turbotax.
One last note: I also purchased Microsoft Money 2006 for Small Business with this, because you can get some rebate. This product is inferior in every sense, and I usually love Microsoft products! It also has no means of importing from Quickbooks (thou Microsoft will tell you to export from quickbooks into a name list - meaning you would lose all transactions and only have say a list of vendors, but they do not know how to export this list from quickbooks!!!!)
I am happy to say MS-Money has a 30-day guarantee and TaxCut has a 60-day guarantee, and both products are in the mail back to the manufacturer. One alternative to Quickbooks from Microsoft you may wish to consider is Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting, although I personally have not tried it, but do not under any circumstance waste your time with MS-Money.
Not even close to ready for prime time February 1, 2006
Mike P (Pennsylvania, USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have many complaints about this program - too numerous to mention. Here are just a few of my biggest...
The program has not been thoroughly tested. It's buggy and not well thought out.
It does not include all of the forms that I needed (and, as of January 31 2006, were not yet available for download).
The program does not allow the user to choose where to save the tax return, so backing up your return is exceedingly clumsy.
The interview starts from the beginning each time you open a return that you've been working on, instead of remembering where you left off.
Support line for TaxCut is horrendous - long wait times and the reps have no idea about how TaxCut Business works.
Stay far away from this product!
 Significant downgrade from last year January 26, 2006
Tom from CT (Wethersfield, CT)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I need this product in order to file an estate income tax return. In a significant change from last year, the product can no longer do your own personal tax returns (1040). So now you have to end up buying two tax software packages.
Also, it's substantially higher priced than other TaxCut software and doesn't have a rebate.
Like before it assumes are relatively sophisticated (tax-wise) and will know what forms you need. This is a safe assumption given the target audience for this software, but a first time user will be somewhat stunned as to how less user-friendly it is than the personal TaxCut versions.
Stunningly Bad March 12, 2006
Peter B. Bonem
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I moved from TurboTax to TaxCut a few years due to Inuit's C-Dilla fiasco, vowing never to return... Having used this year's TaxCut for Business & Business State, I'm soon to be (again) a loyal TT user.
I installed the Federal program and, when directed, also installed the State program. The first piece of bad news was that I couldn't import last year's return (also prepared using TaxCut). The comments in other posts about slow, useless technical support are confirmed; 30 minutes of online chat during which I was asked exactly one pertinent question from a person who obviously knew less about the product and its features than I did. In the end, I was told that it might maybe kind-of possibly be a good guess that some form or other wasn't approved yet and, so, I should wait until mid-March to see if I still had the problem then. This was on March 11th and - as we know - corporate taxes are due on March 15th. I abandoned the attempt at further technical help and just re-entered the information.
The interview does, indeed, not keep track of it's location; very frustrating. Also, there are indeed many places (MANY places) where the TaxCut interview process is as follows: "Here's a form. Fill it out. Don't forget the important stuff."
When I finished the Federal return (expecting to navigate into the State interview), TaxCut was unaware that just hours earlier it had installed the State program. I had to re-download the State from their web site and after being told that I had successfully installed the State, it still wasn't available. I had to close and re-open the program to move from Federal to State. And, OBTW, re-enter a bunch of stuff that shoud have been transferred from the Federal return.
This is definitely the worst tax preparation software (and, quite possibly, the worst commercial software of any sort) I've seen. It's atrocious. I'm embarrased to have bought it and I really wish I'd have read these other reviews before having done so.
DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE March 5, 2006
Mitchell C. Amiano (Raleigh, NC)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a pretty bad cut-the-corners hack-job of a program. I'd give it 0 stars if that were an option.
My TaxCut business return for 2004 disappeared silently when I uninstalled the 2004 product. Did the uninstaller do it? I don't know, but I didn't delete the files manually. As a result, I can't import last year's data.
When updating the software, a dialog came up that ambiguously claimed that some forms were not available. It didn't say which ones, or suggest how I could tell.
It frequently leaves out explanations of entries on forms. At one point it claimed misleadingly that a form was not available and attempted to force me to skip the form, which was needed for asset depreciation. Guessing that the Forms menu might allow it to be downloaded, I tried to Preview and it again misleadingly claimed the form was not available. I clicked on "Open" and it downloaded. After that, I had to click on "Back" a few times to restart the asset process.
The asset entry form is among the worst user interfaces I've ever been cursed with using. There is no excuse for something this bad to survive from the 2004 version of the TaxCut product. It would not respond to a TAB or ENTER/RETURN to go to the next field, forcing the mouse to be used repeatedly. Nor does it provide a way to import from a CSV or spreadsheet. So for anything more than a couple of lines, the costs of data entry time alone well exceed the cost to buy a competitor's software.
It doesn't automatically place you back at the last step you were at, if you interrupt the process, save, and reopen the form. This was annoying. But when I reopened a form after interrupting the entry process, the software incorrectly began setting check boxes to YES or NO, ignoring the prior settings. That's not just annoying, its a very big risk.
Often, questions are posed in such a way as to make them indirect, more ambiguous, and less clear than the paper IRS forms. It is a reflection of the "cutting corners" feel of the product when it is less clear than an IRS publication.
As far as the rest of the interface is concerned, the product often leaves you guessing. Sometimes it uses checkboxes for Yes/No answers; sometimes using buttons instead; often there is little obvious indication of what step to take, or what the consequences are of taking an action.
For those reasons, I'm dumping TaxCut for Business (as well as the TaxCut Deluxe+State I'd purchased with it). It just isn't worth the headache.
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