Why I buy this one ?
- Software for completing Federal tax return quickly and accurately
- Customized tax interview; helpful tax and financial advice for specific life events
- Automatically double-checks return for errors or omissions
- Get paid in as little as 2 business days with electronic refund-advance loan
- Easily import last year's data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, and more

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Price : $14.95 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

barbjewels from CA, United States offers this stuff for:

Price : $14.95 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

barbjewels from CA, United States offers this stuff for:

Price : $14.95 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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What our customer's say!

"very disappointing", My mother worked for H&R Block for many years, so I have no personal problem with them.

I have not used the 2004, but I just quit working on the 2002 edition. I have rental properties and, even though I entered the information where it belonged, it somehow got transferred elsewhere. All of my real estate taxes got moved from where they belonged to form A. Entering the information directly onto the tax forms required me to override every single step. Also, I was not able to go to help and figure out what my standard mileage cost was, so it took me considerable time to go through their mileage dialogue boxes.

I had used Turbo Tax in previous years and was not unhappy with them; however, I had heard that Turbo Tax put spyware on the computer, and made it difficult to install on more than one computer. TaxCut was cheaper, and I figured there would really be no difference. However, at least for year 2002, there was a big difference.

I downloaded TaxAct just a moment ago; it is cheaper than either turbo tax or taxcut, and so far, it behaves just like it is supposed to. I have been entering some info by their prompts and other info directingly onto the tax forms, and, except for the fact that the auto-save requires me to hit the hardreturn every time, other than that, I really like TaxAct.

"Better than TurboTax", We used TurboTax for a couple of years then switched to TaxCut on the advice of friends. It saved us a lot more money! It is more knowledgeable at making the most of one's deductions than TurboTax. We are sorry we didn't switch last year when we first thought of it.

"Can't file even a printed 2004 return", Last year we were able to file a printed return using this software. This year not only could we not down load the mandatory update because there were no instructions that worked, but the software would not let us print a filable return only one with "draft do not file" written all over it. We went to Smart Tax, one of several on line providers listed on the IRS site, and used this to prepare and file our 1040 for free, and our state for a small fee this afternoon! I'll admit that having done the draft with Tax Cut helped. I'm not counting on Tax Cut to get this fixed by next year.

"OK BUT UPDATE PROBLEMS", I have used Tax Cut for several years and reasonably satisfied. But the 2004 edition has an error in the auto update software that causes "UNEXPECTED ERROR" flag when trying to download the update. The TaxCut web site acknowledges the error and lists cause as UNKNOWN. Wasted time disabling firewall, anti-virus, etc. with no resolution. The only solution is to download a full update from their web site which is 42 mb and takes 3 hours with a 56K modem. Imagine this when buying software to speed your tax preparation. A check of the internet shows others having this problem also. Apparently they did not do much quality testing of this product.

Otherwise the software is similar to previous years.

"eh, it's alright", This is my third year with taxcut. It works. I avoid Turbotax because of their reported spyware problesm (at least in the past).

Taxcut is a simple program and obviously H&R Block doesn't spend much on programmers. In fact I can't believe they have more than one part-time person on the front-end of it. It does not look professionally done, more like a beta version. Every year I've used it the text has overlaped entry boxes. The information is displayed in an annoyingly small box with a scroll bar. They should just use the whole screen so I don't have to scroll. You could easily forget to scroll and miss boxes you need to fill in. It gets 1.5 stars for appearance and use.

That said, a fairly simple return takes about an hour and only costs $9.99 (Walmart's got you beat Amazon). It's a tax code and at the end of the day I don't need anything pretty.

It does try to sell me more H&R services, but I guess I've grown used to that. Still, it would all go faster without that in the way. And the navigation just isn't great; in fact it might be poor. And it put two icons on my desktop that I had to delete. But it's this or TurboTax.

An aside: For the life of me I can't figure out why I need to buy tax software. The government could save money, trees, errors and time if they'd distribute a free software package. If they write the rules the least they could do is let me download a free program to interpret them.