Why I buy this one ?
- Quickly and easily complete business and personal tax returns
- Advice on depreciation, expense deductions, and other business considerations
- Pros and cons of potential home-office deductions; industry-specific business tax tips
- Improved Schedule C interview; all forms needed to complete Federal tax return
- Free TaxCut State, DeductionPro, e-filing, and Microsoft Money Standard 2005 after mail-in rebates

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What our customer's say!

"No one likes to do taxes", I have read the reviews on all the Tax software. All I can say is that no one seem to have anything nice to say about any of them. I think that people are so upset when there doing there taxes that they cant say anything good about anything. I have always used Turbo tax but was thinking about switching to tax cut. I just dont think that its going to make it more easier.

"This software is the worst that I have ever used!", It's funny, I'm actually a CPA who specializes in tax compliance. I usually use Lacerte software from Intuit, but I moved and had to finish my partnership at home. I bought TaxCut, and I figured that it would be fine since I'm familiar with taxes. I was wrong, it was full of problems, very difficult to navigate your way around. The partners capital didn't generate to the K-1's correctly. I finally got it all worked out, but it was a pain, especially for an easy partnership. Anyway, I'll be going to TurboTax for everything next year. They have always been better to me.

"Execrable", When I installed and ran this software, I was told the "Interview was missing" for my 1120S. That's nice. It immediately reminded me of when I installed Doom 3 and was told "3D Rendering Engine Missing," or when I bought Microsoft Word and got the message "Fonts and Printer Drivers Missing."

I did what Tax Cut told me to do to connect and update my forms and the stupid thing kept hanging at 4% of download. Maybe they were having server trouble, but I'm not a patient man, especially when I have all my forms and files laid out and I'm ready to do my taxes NOW.

So I went and got TurboTax. The difference was night and day. TurboTax is a well-designed, highly polished and refined product. It updated to the current version with no problems. By contrast, from the moment that first install dialog popped up, Tax Cut for business reeked of shoddiness, as if it were rushed out the door. (Even the dialog boxes looked unprofessional and strangely misaligned.)

I used Tax Cut in 2002 and 2003 but after this experience I never will again. Maybe the guts--the tax code itself--are a bit more robust than TurboTax, but if I can't get the thing to work at all then what difference does it make? The finer points of deductions are not a great concern to me. If they were, I'd have an accountant. Come tax time, I just want a program that works. TurboTax worked. Tax Cut didn't.

"Possibly the worst business tax software ever written", This is the second year I have used TaxCut for both my personal and small business returns. I switched from TurboTax when they started using their copy protection stuff that seemed to give every user a nightmare. Well, all I can say is, there must be two totally different software development teams working on TaxCut programs, because, while TaxCut personal is a fine program, TaxCut for business is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!

Where do I start? First, it cannot even import data from files the 2003 version created. When I tried, it hung every time, eventually forcing me to re-install the entire software package. The error log it generated showed dozens of import errors. Apparently they changed number formats (floating point etc.) and the 2004 version can't handle it. The error log also says to contact the development team but gives no way to do that. And yes, I did update the program from the web before I started.

Ok, so now I'm entering everything by hand. Like Turbo Tax, it has an interview feature, but unlike TurboTax, the interview interface is dreadfully inconsistent. Sometimes you enter info in the interview feature and hit return on your keyboard and the cursor moves to the next field, and sometimes it moves the cursor to the form! Sometimes you can enter data in interview format, sometimes you have to enter it onto the form itself. Were the programmers simply too lazy to write that feature for each page? There is simply no logical reason to make me bounce back and forth between methods!

Next, as expected, the interview has many questions where you answer yes or no if you are elegible or required to fill out certain info. However, even if you answer NO, it still takes you to those pages! Oh but of course, that only happens sometimes, other times it DOES skip the pages!

I also purchased the state business componenet for TaxCut. Despite reporting that it loaded successfully, TaxCut professional didn't seem to know the state version was there! Of course, it was more than happy to display (right next to the "help" button)a link to BUY the state version!

Oh but wait, if you exit the interview mode, and click on "go", (not the logical tab in my opinion, which would be "FORMS"), you see a list (under "my forms") of all your forms, and golly, if the state forms aren't there! Of course, you can also add forms to your return under the forms tab. Careful, as you poke around trying to find the form you thought you added to your return, you may add the form again from the "forms" tab. The program, instead of taking you to the form you added, will instead add another copy of the same form, which you can later NOT delete from your return. I know there may be circumstances where you DO want a second copy of the form, but mostly you don't. Would it be too much for the "forms" section to ask if you want a new copy or to go to the one you already added?

Now, you'd expect, since the main program doesn't appear to know the state forms are there (or maybe it does ?!?!) you would have to enter data into the state forms by hand, but it's not that simple! SOME forms have SOME data automatically transferred in them, SOME forms have NONE!

And what if you need help? The help link has a simple FAQ that has a very minimal few lines then refers you to the IRS instructions. Well if the IRS instructions made any sense, I wouldn't be using a help section of a tax program. Especially one written by TAX EXPERTS!

I could go on and on, but since I've just spent an ENTIRE DAY doing these taxes, I'm burned out. FYI, I run a SIMPLE small business, I can't imagine what kind of nightmare this would be for a business with inventory, and employees etc.

Please, please, please, stay as far away from this program as possible. I'm saying this for your own good.

I would give this 0 stars if Amazon would let me.

"Bug in the IRA/Pensions withdraw Area:", If you take IRA withdraws and have a pension just stay away from this program. If you already have it and can't get hold of tech support, email me and I'll tell you the work around they came up with. The sad thing is we could not have been the first to encounter this, (the tech people acted like it), so who knows how many retired people overpaid.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"This product does not do what it says it will!", This is probably the worst tax software I have every purchased. I've been using TurboTax and TaxCut for years and this year I have had nothing but problems from the state program and the Federal.

For one, there are "fixes" that won't download. Everytime I do, the program crashes during installation.

It DID NOT import last year's returns saying that I didn't use the most recent version of TurboTax to do my return last year (which is NOT true!). This should have been my first signal that this software is useless.

It WILL NOT UPDATE. Since I was using the product TODAY (Feb 16) that is well past their update of Jan 27.

Another thing: my CDs were smudged leading me to believe that I am not the first person to use this package I purchased from Amazon or that the company has poor QC.

I am hoping that I get a refund from Amazon for the $89 I spent on the TaxCut Complete for Home & Business (same problem by the way) and the 24.50 I spent on the state program.

I'm always going to purchase TurboTax from now on because the technical support at for this product blows. All they did was tell me the same stupid thing over and over again (in other words, they had no idea what to do!) ($9.95 for calls to get tech support, isn't that nice?)

"Excellent product, year after year", Both complaints I read below sound more like people that are too impatient to wait for the final updates or follow directions, than serious tax filers. If you want to file your taxes in January, you are going to have to fill our the forms manually, the software companies (both TaxCut and Turbo Tax) have to finish their final programming after the IRS releases the final rules.

Moving on. I have used TaxCut now for 6 or 7 consecutive years. Every year it gets easier to use. I don't have easy taxes either. I own 5 rental homes and have to deal with all the write-offs and depreciation. TaxCut has been a great help to me. I would recommend it to anyone.

"No support, $10 to speak to rep", Sirs, I bought TaxCut Standard on January 17 and found that it does not allow me to progress past "do you want to download updates now?" (That is bad because the existing software is said to be of November vintage.) When I try to download I am told that I do not have an internet connection. (I did.) So I took the software back and asked for a refund. BestBuy agreed that the software is useless as is. [...]

No value to me. No software update. No refund. BestBuy (Atlanta, Perimeter Center) agreed that to continue to sell that product would only harm the good reputation of BestBuy.

One star seems generous to me.

CECoffey

"Sorry about the Last Reviewer but....", the fact that this program can imports from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, Microsoft Money, was what moved me from TurboTax to here the last reviewer may not have noticed but Taxcut sent out numerous updates that resolved a lot of issues with the software and it alarmed you multiple times before sending off your taxes from last year almost making it error free .. .and they will support you for those errors if any at all if the IRS did indeed have to be involved (I had none with my business). . .after the "spyware like" problems that inuuit's Turbotax and Quicken had, it was great to see how easy it was to move to this program as well as my now favorite MS Money small business program after being a dedicated user of Quicken/TurboTax for 5 years and dreading the change. Below's quotes work for this year and last year for me and I hope for others:

"Whether you are a novice at tax preparation or a pro looking for shortcuts, TaxCut Premium 2003, our "Top 10 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner" is an excellent product for tax preparation and filing. TaxCut combines a wealth of useful features and information with simple navigation for a good price."
Top Ten Reviews

"It holds the edge when it comes to calculating income and expenses for self-employment, and it was the most comprehensive and easiest to use in that area."
TechTV

"TaxCut should be called TaxHIKE!", Last year, a bug in TaxCut caused by W2 to be entered twice in an e-filed return. Instead of getting a healthy refund, the IRS thought I owed them several thousand dollars in back taxes, penalty, and interest. Speaking of interest, HR Block showed NO interest in helping me with the problem that their bugware caused. It took me several months, several nasty letters from the IRS, and a long stream additional forms (not supported by TaxCut) to get the TaxCut problems straightened out.

I'm giving this product one star only because I can't give it zero. I heartily advise you to do whatever you need to do to avoid this product and this company. Use TurboTax, calculate by hand, or hire a CPA, but do NOT trust TaxCut.