Why I buy this one ?
- No more wading through paperwork for hours -- the simple Tax Assistants bring you the financial assistance you need, step-by-step
- Work out the total taxable value on your stock portfolios, options, and capital gains with no trouble
- Then print out and mail your tax return and get your refund back in time at all!

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What our customer's say!

"Seriously buggy---may cost me big time", This software has a serious bug that may cost me a great deal of money.

My wife lived in Illinois for a year while I lived most of the year in California. In such a case, it is imperative that we file our Federal returns separately, otherwise Illinois will tax us on the money I earned in California!

TaxCut not only didn't warn us of this, it incorrectly computed the Illinois taxes using the part-year resident form. This was in spite of my having specified that my wife was in Illinois the whole year, and in spite of it being very plainly stated on the Illinois form that under such circumstances, a couple filing jointly could not use the form!

Unfortunately, I allowed TaxCut to e-file my return before I checked the state returns. Now I have to file an amendment.

I was also unable to get any help from TaxCut's customer support to stop the e-filing before it went through.

I'll never use their software again.

"My first tax-prep software", I can't really compare this software to others, but I can say that it did a pretty good job for me. Just spend about 20 minutes answering questions in the beginning, and it will do most of the rest. My tax return consisted of several jobs for both my wife and I, working in two different states, mutual fund and stock purchases and sales, interest and capital gains income, and a mortgage. I thought this would make my return to complicated for a comuter software, but everything I needed was here. Nad if for some reason you don't like what it does, you can manually change any entry. However, if you manually change entries, you will not be allowed to e-file.
I installed this on my desktop, and again on my laptop to do some work when my wife was working on the desktop. This worked fine. But there is no clear way of letting one computer know what you did on another computer, so multiple installations are for the most part useless.
The one thing I don't like is that it seemed like procrastinators are rewarded for their laziness in that this software gets cheaper the nearer you get to April 15th, to the point where it become free after rebate.

"Good alternative to Turbotax", I bought Taxcut this tax season because I was not interested in having Intuit's intrusive product activation features placed on my computer. I found Taxcut to be a decent alternative to Turbotax. (Is there any reason, though, why we have to put up with H&R Block putting Earthlink advertising on my computer?)

"no problems", first time to use tax software - this program installed/ran fine on windows 2000 - I had to use the auto-update feature once, and it worked smoothly

Other than 1 401k-related item the help seemed vague about, filing my 1040 with this software was a piece of cake.

"Zero stars would be more accurate", This program insisted on a 4/15/03 or earlier date for one entry, but wouldn't let me enter it! It kept producing an error message. I finally had to use a 4/16/03 date which allowed the return to process. The next day the return was rejected for a late date, even though the software said it would be registered as on time if submitted before midnight which it in fact was. It then wouldn't allow me to log on to check on my re-submitted return. Live technical support was worthless, as they will not acknowledge or correct this major software error. I have used Turbo Tax for the previous several years without a glitch, and even saved money by using it. I didn't care for the spyware they have installed, and thus didn't use it this year. My returns are relatively simple and usually are done in an hour or less with little effort, using TT. Don't waste your money on Taxcut, and learn how to uninstall spyware.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Good enough to convert me", I, like many other former TurboTax users, purchased the TaxCut software expecting a lower quality product that would get the job done with minimal bells and whistles. I found that TaxCut is not only visually appealing in a simplistic yet professional manner but it is also incredibly easy to use. It takes care of the biggest chunk of work by being able to import your tax file from the previous year for either TaxCut or TurboTax software. This made the transition to TaxCut practically transparent. TaxCut has all the features and functionality you'd expect in tax software without the spyware hocus-pocus of TurboTax. I suspect it will take Intuit a while to recover from their design screw up. Of course, that will depend greatly on H&R Block's ability to enhance and more aggressively market TaxCut. This is the stuff that open market competition strives for! Highly Recommended!

"DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM", I have used TurboTax for the last 15 years (actually 5 years were MacinTax but that's beside the point), and never had a problem. Like everyone else I tried this program because of the price and the other "issues". This program locked up 35 times, and never downloaded any of the updates. I went to the website, download pages were not available, the customer feedback form was also not available, hmmm... Here's where it gets "good", I CAN order an update CD for only $5.95! OR... Why do I feel like my "value" is going out the window? My advice, brave the spyware and get a product that works and won't suck your wallet dry.

"Does what it needs to do", Personally, I think the government should supply us with free programs for tax calculations - it's their complicated rules after all. I'm convinced it would save everyone money by eliminating errors. But until that happens a software program is well worth the investment.

After reading all the negative reviews on TurboTax, I opted for TaxCut this year. I want Intuit to realize that I have no interest in buying software that installs spyware and advertisements on my computer. ...P>TaxCut did try to put Earthlink on my computer, but after a refusal it never tried again. I guess I can live with that.

It was easy to use and almost as straight forward as TurboTax. I had no problems with installation or updating it. The only reason I knocked it down to 4 stars is because the appearance was a little bit distorted. The boxes where data is typed in (e.g W-2 forms) had the numbers not really aligned with the boxes. Also, all the text was in a little box using up maybe 30% of the screen. Most of the time that was fine, but sometimes you had to scroll down to see the remaining data. If you weren't careful, you could miss the fact that there was more to be seen. Not a big problem - but it does leave the possibility someone will miss a box or instructions that way. And generally, it's just not as user-friendly and obvious as it could be. So, it just needs a few tweaks. The important thing is it works and I was done in 1.5 hours.

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"Tax Cut does it better!", Thankfully, I was able to heed the advice of many former Turbo Tax users and purchase Tax Cut right off the bat.

Tax Cut works wonderfully, and I experienced no problems in installing or using the problems. A very seamless operation, indeed.

To those who are skittish about switching to Tax Cut (i.e. afraid of change or the unknown) let me assure you, Tax Cut works just as well as Turbo Tax, but without the added problems of installation and operation. I say this, as a former Turbo Tax user from way back when it was part of Parsons Technology.

I give Tax Cut a big Five Stars! And the Turbo Tax people need to take notice here. In fact, I think it's the whole Intuit culture that needs to be changed, when they try to foister outrageous things upon their users (Intuit QuickBooks users: remember when they forced you to 'subscribe' to the payroll tax tables and gave you no choice otherwise?).

"As good as TurboTax... from 2 years ago.", This year, I purchased both TurboTax & Taxcut. I've used TurboTax for the last several years, but decided to look into switching after hearing about TurboTax's copy-protection fiasco. So obviously, the "big plus" for TaxCut is the ability to do your taxes on multiple computers without buying another copy. However, that seems to be the only plus compared to TurboTax. Here are the issues I had with TaxCut:

- Cannot handle large fonts. If you are using windows at a high resolution and have chosen large fonts, be aware that none of the screens will look correct. Input fields will overlap each other, the running "refund" amount will be cut off, etc. Very annoying.
- Does not take advantage of high resolution displays. If you maximize the window, it still only makes good use of what appears to be a 640x480 part of the window. To be fair, TurboTax has this same issue.
- A nice new feature of this year's TurboTax is the ability to import your W2 electronically. TaxCut also has this feature, but said that it couldn't import my data! My employer uses ADP for payroll, so I don't understand why TaxCut couldn't do this.
- TurboTax downloaded my 1099-B information from Salamon Smith Barney. Taxcut could not. *Very* tedious entering stock sales by hand. I remember doing this 2 years ago with TurboTax.
- Dates require 4-digit years to be entered. I don't see why they can't accept 2-digit years for ease-of-entry, and then convert them. I believe TurboTax does this.

It basically feels like TurboTax from a couple years ago. It took me much longer to enter all my information into TaxCut, due to not importing my 1099-B or W2 information electronically. Not a bad program, but definitely second-rate compared to TurboTax.