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| From: H&R Block
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $3.99
You Save: $26.00 (87%)
New (12) Used (5) from $2.88
Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 1056
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Federal + State Win/Mac
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 1036600-06
Model: 1036600-06
UPC: 735290102058
EAN: 0735290102058
ASIN: B000K2P9HM
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 21-25 of 72
 Beware the Ohio software! January 31, 2007
Cantabrigian64 (Westerville, OH United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used the Block software to prepare my Ohio return - until I noticed that it did not provide for the tax credit for contributions to Ohio political candidates! That item was worth $50 to me. I then used the online tax preparation feature on the Ohio Department of Taxation website which was fast and easy and promises my refund in two weeks or less - a refund $50 higher than Block would have generated.
I don't know if their software for other states is any better, but I sure wouldn't trust it.
This is a piece of garbage February 3, 2007
Gift Card Recipient
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Cheaper isn't always better. Next year I will gladly pay the extra cash for Turbo Tax. The Tax Cut user interface is clumsy and a bit confusing. The program itself is unstable, locking up several times. The Deduction component is almost worthless. And now there is a e-file fee!
This is junk. Do yourself a favor and stay away from taxcut.
TaxCut, less than adequate. January 16, 2007
C. Laird (San Jose, CA)
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
Perhaps its the latest fashion of out sourcing. Over the years I've watched TaxCut degrade in engineering quality.
Issues:
1) Mac version only runs with "administrator" privilidges. This is just typically Microsoft mentality dumb. Unlike Windows, the Mac OS can seperate out limited privilige users (safety mechanism to protect against malicious programs from accessing system areas). An application does not have to have access to system files, to execute on Mac OS, unless the "inexpensive" alternative engineer who wrote it, is so profoundly ignorant of his/her trade that they don't know that.
2) Last year, the Windows version would not execute on Virtual PC (Windows emulator, by MicroSoft, for Mac OS). I didn't try the Windows application, on the same CD this year, to see if they fixed that. I'll bet they didn't. The application tried to access a low core address or look for a low core value, and of course, was tripped up by the emulation mode of Virtual PC. (Yet another incredibly naive mistake made by the author.) When I called customer service for a work around, I was told (paraphrasing) "Tough. We don't support non-Windows platforms". When I informed this ignorant customer service agent, that my Virtual PC was running Windows XP, his response was the same. Which makes me suspect they planned to execute only on a Intel based CPU, hmmm.
3) Critical updates to the Federal application and my entire CA state application are still not available from H&R. The problem is that the Federal/State dead line for estimated tax payments passed on Jan. 15th. I guess TaxCut is not designed for customers who earn other than wage income. Or at the very least, H&R doesn't care.
4) The application interview process is adequate. But, then I know the tax code and tax tricks in and out. Perhaps, I was able to navigate easier because of personal knowledge.
5) With this pre-real version "errors" were generated (not unexpected). We shall see if the application will allow straight forward correction/adjustment of the various worksheets. In previous years, a few of the "errors" were uncorrectable, because the application either had no means to access the respective worksheet, or once encoded, data would not change, or once encoded all further adjustments were treated as additions.
6) When I imported my Capital Gains Summary from Quicken, TaxCut garbled the description. It did, this year, correctly translate dates, amounts, & gains/losses. It also recorded, this year, all entries.
Is TurboTax, the only alternative I know of, any better? Don't know. This review would be accurate for the 1999 version I used. Things may have changed since then.
Premium doesn't do ESPP or Stock Option February 7, 2007
A. Tang (MA USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used TurboTax for several years. This year TurboTax Premier cost $75, so I thought I would try TaxCut Premium. On the box, it has a check mark on ESPP and Stock Option. It turns out TaxCut is only "assisting" on those topic. Meaning, the software will ask you a bunch of question and determine if you need to file it and roughly where in the tax form. I was shock that TaxCut wasn't going to take my ESPP information and put them in the Schedule D and report the Ordinary Income. No wonder TaxCut only cost $29.99 and TurboTax cost $75. TaxCut Premium feature is at most equivalent to TurboTax Deluxe.
Beside the ESPP shock, the rest of the program seems comparable to TurboTax, hence 2 stars instead of 1.
 Good but Where's the Brokerage Import February 10, 2007
R. Heiple (Detroit, MI)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Puchased, install on Win XP PC - good.
Update software over Dial-up internet ~ 35 mins OK
Imported last years TurboTax data - looked fine - Great!
Enter some data then tried to import tax info from Fidelity Brokerage Account. Could not find feature.
Contacted "Live" support over internet. Waited about 15 mins. After some boiler plate answers and 15 more mins of waiting, answer - TaxCut does not offer that feature in any of this years products. Bummer. Puchased much more expensive TurboTax. Imported tax info from brokerage firm.
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