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
- Find out how you can increase your tax and retirement savings with sound advice from H&R Block and Kiplinger
- Also includes free copies of TaxCut State, E-filing, and a copy of Microsoft Money(after rebate - See below)

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What our customer's say!

"Very user friendly tax software", I have used TaxCut for several years now, and really appreciate its convenience and ease of use. The software works like an interview - you answer a list of questions, and when you are done, your tax return is complete. It picks up the data from prior year returns done on TaxCut, so if you use the program year after year, it gets progressively easier and less time-consuming to prepare your taxes. Clear explanations are provided for every entry, potential problem areas are flagged, and your return is compared with average taxpayer returns in your income bracket so you can see if your deductions etc. are out of line with the norm. The state program for my state is also very simple to use. In my opinion, using TaxCut is far simpler and less stressful than either doing taxes by hand or using a tax preparer.

"Don't use Tax Cut if you have to file an Oregon State return", Last year I used Turbo Tax and was able to file my state return electronically. This year I switched to Tax Cut and it doesn't support E-filing the Oregon State return. Now, at the last minute, I have to print and file a manual return. This will add about 2 months to the time it takes to get a refund. Next year it's back to Turbo Tax, no matter how bad it is, it's better than Tax Cut.

"Disappointing; about as good as TurboTax was 2-3 years ago", I switched to TaxCut from TurboTax because reviews said it was as good as TurboTax but without TurboTax's copy protection scheme. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Entering Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) transactions was much more difficult than last year's TurboTax. The capital gains wizard was almost no help. The online instructions and help were much less helpful, and the help had a much poorer index.

Overall, I would say TaxCut 2003 is about as good as TurboTax was 2-3 years ago. But it is not nearly as easy to use as TurboTax was last year. As much as I dislike TurboTax's copy protection scheme, I will go back to TurboTax next year.

"Does not live up to TurboTax Deluxe", Since this is my first year of trying to file US Income Taxes _myself_, I picked TaxCut since I didn't like the TurboTax registration annoyance. I later hat the opportunity to enter my Federal and my California Tax Info on a friend's computer with TurboTax Deluxe and thus was able to compare the Interview process.

My tax situation was very easy except for 3 issues:
1. I had to pay tax due in 2002 for my 2001 State Tax Return
2. I collected foreign dividends, interest and captital gains
3. I payed foreign taxes (on those foreign dividends and
interests) and thus filed form 1116.

So what happend:
1. Knowing on where and how to enter the fact that I payed state
taxes, was a major hassle with TaxCut. The interview process
asked about it at one point, but then you were left alone
to figure out on which of the following screens you had
to enter this information, so that it would properly carry
over to the State tax program. There was nothing in the FAQ,
in any of the help sections or on the website. It took
two emails with customer support to get an answer to this
question.

TurboTax explicitely asked that question in its interview
process and had my enter the amount right away.

2. Neither program provides any support for dealing with foreign
currencies, so you're on your own with the conversion.

3. Form 1116 was another nightmare with TaxCut, which basically
left you to filling out the forms / worksheets by yourself.
TurboTax made it much more easier.

Other issues:
- Changes in the Federal Data did not always carry over
properly to the State Return (i.e. when I deleted info
about Estimated Taxes payed). I only noticed this
when comparing the figures with TurboTax
- I bought the "Platinum" version, but I didn't see any
practical benefit.

At the end of the day both programs calculated the same
figures, however TurboTax' interview progress was much clearer

and mad me much more comfortable.

If TurboTax didn't have that awkward registration scheme I would never use TaxCut again.

"Never used Turbo Tax anyway", Taxcut is easy to use and my return is relatively simple, so I was mostly satisfied with it. Contrary to previous reviews, it does have an interview feature and I did not find that I had to enter the same information repeatedly.

On the downside, the program is full of bugs that range from the amusing (like saying "I see that your spouse also moved this year" when I am filing a single return!) to the scary (like forcing me to enter a value for a mortgage deduction when I do not own a home) I run a small home based business and that seemed to extend Taxcut's capability to the maximum. Taxcut worked fine this year, but if my business grows any larger,I'll switch to something else next year.

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"Buggy, Does not do what is promised; Support is useless;", After I have removed some previously entered Schedule D transactions it still prints security name on the printed forms. The same forms printed "not for filing" or displayed on the screen do not have these records, so there is no way to remove this garbage.
Investors/Traders who have wash sales should consider TurboTax Deluxe rather then TaxCut Platinum.
Product integration with GainsKeeper is incomplete. TaxCut is unable to import Wash Sales from GK. Transactions, which do not result in wash sales, are imported correctly.

I have asked TaxCut customer support regarding integration with GainsKeeper. Contrary to product specification they responded that TaxCut can import data only from Quicken/MS Money, but not GK. Response to my other technical question about arranging schedule D transactions in particular order was even more useless...

"extra download for update", I purchased TaxCut instead of TurboTax because TurboTax required initialization over the internet to use it. My daughter and I both use the program and TaxCut allows up to 5 family members usage. I DID NOT like the fact that I had to download updates to both this and the State program that took almost an hour to do. Also the State program did not recognize that Harford County has only three incorporated towns and gave me an error message to list my town. I thought it should have been aware of all local information.

"And you get Microsoft Money for free", I was a dedicated TurboTax user. Thanks to serious trashing by others on this site and elsewhere I avoided TurboTax this year.
TaxCut was just as easy to use as TT. And the box came with a rebate for Microsoft Money. I went out and purchased DeluxeI just finished getting all my accounts setup and like it better then Quicken. Thanks Intuit. I never would have discovered TaxCut and Money if you did not mess up like this.

"What a nightmare!", I had been a user of TurboTax for several years and was very satisfied with the results and ease of use. I had logged on one day to pick up a copy of Turbotax but based upon some of the reviews here I decided to get Taxcut. Big mistake. Taxcut is very buggy and it even locked up when I was first trying to register it online.

I had already calculated my taxes based using my tax info from 2002 and Turbotax deluxe 2001. I figured it should give me a ball park figure since tax laws can't change that much in one year.

At any rate TT estimated I should pay in a small amount. When I entered all the numbers in with Taxcut platinum it showed me as having in pay in almost tens times as much. I re-entered the data several times and it would give me different results but always on the high side. I even completed a brand new form and made sure I had the latest sotware update. It said I had the latest update but still yielded very high info on taxes and it wasn't a consistant number even though my tax info was constant.

Finally after messing around with this for about ten hours I decided I would just uninstall everything and throw the software disk and everything associated with Taxcut in the trash. Hopefully I can wipe this nightmare completely from my memory.

I ordered Turbotax today and I will used that program this year.

Taxcut is not a very user friendly program and in some of the interview questions it was mising a specific line number to get info from. Also, the look and feel of this program is a bit on the edge of being amateur/professional. Very similar to some of the shareware programs you can find where somebody wrote the program from their basement. It may be just a cut above that.

Looking back on some of the reviews of TT the negative on the product had more to do with the activation process rather than how the program performed.

If Taxcut has worked fine for you for years than stick with it but I am never going to touch this program again. I should have know better than to change something that was working fine for me.

"Poor support for Macintosh, not as nice as Turbo Tax", I read this years reviews for Turbo Tax and discovered that Turbo Tax was charging $.. more for their Mac Version, which didn't seem fair, so I decided to give Tax Cut a try this year. Big Mistake.

First of all, Tax Cut's Mac State products will not be out till February 28th (you have to really dig deep in their site to discover this). This contradicts other information given by their site and by customer support that indicates it is available now.

Also, at present, the most current (Feb 6th) updated Mac version of the Federal Tax Cut has a bug which prevents you from passing the review (you can not file). The Error indicates you should upgrade to the newest version available mid-January. I just sent this error report in to them last night, so I can only guess when it will be fixed.

Finally, the program is not a nice a product as Turbo Tax is (or at least, as last year's was). The implementation is crude. Video help had decompression problems. But worst of all, every time you double-click a word that you want defined you have to go out to the taxcut.com website to see the result. Please.... How hard would it have been to define these terms within the program? Thank goodness I have a cable modem, always on, connection.

It is really so bad that if my e-mails to TaxCut do not get resolution in a few days, I am going to just eat the cost of this poor product and pay the extra $.. and by this years Turbo Tax for Mac.

I'll update this review and make it more positive if I receive positive resolution, but if I bail, I am going to let this one stand.