Others say...

"worst program ever"
This was the most user unfriendly Turbotax I have ever used. The Schedule C imported misinformation, had to keep forcing in the correct info. And I just found out my State taxes were received showing I owed a completely different amount than what I had electronically filed. I have used this program for years, but after this, NEVER AGAIN!!! Let this be a warning to others.

"insufficient menus"

Turbotax was a great service, but I would like to be able to navigate with menus/tabs to a greater degree of specificity within the input pages itself. Writing the return often requires back-tracking to a page that you alread covered.
To get to a particular prior page, I would often be forced to go through up to 5 or 6 prior pages, reading the question each time because turbotax highlighted the default which was not my previous choice. This was a colossal waste of time in an otherwise excellent product. It could easily be fixed in the 2006 software if turbotax 1) switched the defaults to the users' previously-inputted values (CompleteTax does this and it seems like an obvious thing to do) and/or made it easy to navigate to a prior page by giving a link to every input page when a user clicks a superior tab or link. This is what a good web-page does, and it would be very helpful if turbotax did the same.


"Horrible product this year"
I used TurboTax Premier last year & was so happy with it that I told everyone to buy it this year. What a fool I was. This years program was a nightmare. I will never purchase it again. Every time I needed to go back to check something, I had to go backwards through each page until I reached the page I wanted. Then to go forward to where you originally were, you had to retrace all your steps a second or third or fourth time. It got to the point I quit going back to check. It took hours this year and I am still not confident the results were correct. I may take it to H&R Block just to see if I need to file an amend. Next year I will try a different product. ---One other thing, navigating the State portion was so difficult. There were hidden pages in something called "quick zoom" or some such thing. I could never figure out where I was. Thanks for the headache Turbotax.

"Detailed Guidance With A Hidden Fee"
As an IT Professional, I'm all about simplification. I'm also about paying for a license and expecting certain features to be value-added; not ala-carte. Shelling out ~$60 for a software platform just to turn around and have to shell out an additional ~$30 as I prefer to eFile my statements is a bit unsettling.

Intuit gets my approval on their final product, as long as you aren't hoping to import statements from common platforms such as Money or Quicken. This software will guide you through your tax return and populate all of your forms for you. It may even show you a deduction or two that you might have been unaware of.

I guess the bottom line is does ~$90 substantiate this process/purchase; if you prefer to eFile? My vote is nay.

"Horrible disappointment"
I had the exact same experience as another reviewer. ....loved it for years...changed formats...no confidence. At the last minute I had to use an accountant. The accountant cost me $650.00. $50 more than what I was over paying in taxes using this software. A disaster. It doesn't look like it was importing data correctly, state navigation really was painful. I buy this software to try different senerios (Joint or single)...but this year it wouldn't do that. Probably because they worry too much about getting paid for every user and not enough to assist people who bought the software.

To my mind the software is crippled.