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- Guides you step by step to get your maximum refund
- Automatically double-checks your return for errors
- Free one-on-one expert tax advice live by phone or chat
- Includes Audit Risk Meter which helps you reduce your chance of an audit
- Includes Free Federal E-File and one download of a TurboTax State product
TurboTax Deluxe: Guides you step-by-step to maximize your deductions
HOLD OFF,
Let me first say that I have always used Turbo Tax and will continue to do so. However, I bought the 2011 yesterday and installed it on my Mac, running Lion. The install was fine, BUT I was then asked if I wanted to install 3 updates (a never ending, but necessary function for tax software). I agreed and after being patient, as requested by the update, for over 30 minutes, I realized that the install had frozen my computer and I had to Force Quit my Mac. Thinking that this was just a fluke, I tried it again and the same thing happened during the install, including the Force Quit. I then decided to reinstall Turbo Tax and not agree to the update. It worked, but it couldn’t find the Turbo Tax 2010 automatically and I had to find it myself for this function to work. Hopefully, for 2011, the ability to password protect my return will work since, for whatever reason, the password protect doesn’t work on Mac – this was confirmed by Turbo Tax Support last year.
My conclusion- Intuit was in such a rush to get the product on the shelves for Black Friday and sell as many as they could as soon as possible, that they didn’t really care about how good a product they were selling initially thinking they could always correct problems with updates- too bad they didn’t think about how to correct an update problem which will prevent any corrections to take place.
I would wait a month or so until to buy Turbo Tax and let Intuit fix all the bugs rather than get frustrated. Tax returns are not a lot of fun, so why double the pain?
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|worked fine for me,
I just downloaded TT Deluxe, and did my usual preliminary tax computation for 2011. (I’m using Windows 7, on a pretty fast computer, with all Windows updates current.)
I had no problems with the program. It installed with no problems, checked for updates (none), found various copies of my 2010 tax file, allowed me to select one of them. I quickly reviewed the imported 2010 info, and it all looked correct.
I don’t use the “import from Quicken” feature, because I find that it sometimes causes problems. Instead, I create reports in Q that I export in TXF format, which I can then import into TT. This worked fine. I couldn’t download my brokerage & mutual fund information yet, obviously, since that will not be available until late Jan or early Feb. Same with the W2 info. Instead I entered some info based on my records, just to go through the preliminary calculation. Everything worked as expected. BUT note that some forms (e.g., Sch D) aren’t finalized yet, are waiting for the IRS.
One note: Intuit pushes the more expensive Premier version for those with investment income, but you don’t need it unless your situation is rather complex. If all you have is mutual funds and some brokerage stock/bond transactions, you’re likely to be fine with Deluxe. (If you have option trading, you’ll have to look into the details, Deluxe might still be fine.)
Also note that in the past I’ve used H&R Block (aka TaxCut), and have found it to be about as good as TT. If I were paying money, I’d get the one that’s cheaper. (I get TT discounts from my fund company, hence it’s cheaper for me.)
I’ll update this review in Feb after I’ve done more with the program.
Quick note on hidden privacy option:
Just noticed that Intuit hid a privacy option nice and deep. Go into Help-About, and select the Privacy tab. You’ll see a box to permit sharing metrics about your usage. Seems perfectly reasonable and harmless, but it annoys me that they felt it was ok to hide it like that. So guess what, I unchecked it. You can decide for yourself, I don’t think it’s a big deal either way.
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|2ND NOTICE TO HOLD OFF,
Just in case you aren’t sure about the first notice to hold off, be advised this early version will hang when it tries to automatically update and it will not automatically find your 2010 data to transfer.
Recommend you hold off until the new version Intuit promises on 15 December as this version was rushed out too quickly.
I have been a loyal customer of Intuit’s for both Turbo Tax and Quicken for over 15 years. One of these year’s I’ll bite the bullet and make a transfer to something else since Intuit really doesn’t seem to care whether I purchase their products or not. I do appreciate that Intuit Turbo Tax VP Bob Meigan posts here and on other forums — but if an Intuit VP has to spend his time trolling the web doing damage control something is really, really wrong!
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