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Posted: 3/14/2003 10:50:13 AM EDT

Who is using TurboTax for the web to prepare and file their income taxes this year? I've never used this software but I think I'm gonna try it this year. I've heard its the easiest way to do it these days.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:01:05 AM EDT

[#1]

I did. Took about 20 minutes to go through it all. Including itemizing deductions. For $20 I think it's well worth it. I had my return in about 10 days. I'll never do them by hand again.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:01:25 AM EDT

[#2]

I didnt use it this year. But i have used it for the past 3. It works great, really easy to use. I give it a thumbs up.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:04:25 AM EDT

[#3]

I really like this TurboTax program because it keeps all your data from the prior year such as investment loss carryovers. I'm sold on it!

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:10:29 AM EDT

[#4]

I've always used TurboTax and the last couple years the Web version.

Why run to the store and buy software, only to connect to the web to update it?

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:16:07 AM EDT

[#5]

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Why run to the store and buy software, only to connect to the web to update it?

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That's what I was thinking. Sounds like I'll be trying it. Thanks for all the input.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:17:03 AM EDT

[#6]

i have for the past several years. WORKS WELL!

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:27:27 AM EDT

[#7]

You can go through the entire process to find out what it will calculate what you owe/get back w/o paying. That's kind of cool. Then when you pay, you get to e-file and it lets you download your return in pdf format for your records. I have used it the past 2 years for federal and state and like it.

-Nuke

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:29:07 AM EDT

[#8]

turbo tax has spyware built into it. if you use it be prepared to have your privacy invaded if you're online at the same time. if you have to use it, i would recommend that you uninstall it when you're done.

ian

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:30:53 AM EDT

[#9]

I used it this year and the year before. It has always worked. I got my return in 7 days.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:32:11 AM EDT

[#10]

I used TurboTax for years, and decided to switch this year to TaxCut. Go to Amazon. com and read the evaluations. This year, TT took an aggressive approach at stopping piracy, to the point that it caused problems with some peoples systems. Read the reviews to see more ...

This does not guarantee a problem, and it may be fine for you, but I don't like spyware, and definately don't like this type of behavior by a low end software vendor.

Posted: 3/14/2003 11:39:48 AM EDT

[#11]

I did my taxes about six weeks ago, & IIRC, the activation process was an aggravation process. You would probably be farther ahead with Tax Cut. Intuit really screwed the pooch this year.

You should search for some boards where they discuss tax s/w.

In the past Turbo Tax has been real easy to use but that activation process has cost them a lot of customers & it will cause a lot of people NOT to use them next year. They added the activation because they seemed to feel that people would get their s/w free from friends. I have no way of knowing if that was a significant problem or not.

Here is Intuit's website: [url]www.turbotax.com[/url]

Here is the Tax Cut website: [url]http://www.taxcut.com/[/url]

In the past the software has been easy to use, & once you get past the activation process, it is still pretty easy. The information carry over feature is nice, but my limited experience has been that it essentially just carries over your name & address. The tax loss carry forward is OK, but you could just keep track of it manually very easily, too.

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