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- TurboTax Premier guides you step-by-step through investments and rental property income
- Assists with stocks, bonds, mutual funds and employee stock plans
- Provides extra guidance for rental property income, expenses and refinancing
- Free Federal E-File—receive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as few as 8 days
- Plus, includes a download of one TurboTax State product–a $39.95 value
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Guides you step-by-step through investments and rental property income.Amazon.com Product Description
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2007 Turbo Tax allowed me to take an IRS deduction for an IRA. I submitted my return after it was determined by Turbo Tax to be error free. It was some 10 months later that the IRS contacted me to tell me that I was being penalized for improperly taking this deduction as my and my wife’s (joint return) was too high. I had to pay the penalty and interest and go thru the procedure with Charles Schwab to reverse the contribution. Calling Turbo Tax they admitted their error and said they were sorry. Of course if you wish to fill out reams of paperwork they said they will refund to me the interest and penalty. For 250 dollars the time wasted is not worth it to deal with them. I believe that they count on this when they make their warranty.
2008 Turbo Tax caused or allowed an error that I am still dealing with. Basically we sold a bond fund at Schwab that had gone down substanially in value (this was Schwab’s inhouse short turn bond fund (Yieldplus) that they are being class action sued over because of massive losses incurred by owners of the “safe” fund). Turbo Tax showed the amount of money that we had received for the sale of the fund as a gain, when in fact it should have showed it as a return of capital. So the IRS then added the proceeds of this gain to our gross income when they reviewed the return thereby triggering a very large penalty and interest charge. I then filed an amended return where all penalties were removed except some 300 dollars in interest which we are still fighting. Yesterday I and my wife both get a letter from Social Security that our Medicare part B charges are going up over 400 dollars per year because we made too much money in 2008(this of course because of this error in attributing this sale to gross income). Now we must deal with this, so the beat goes on. Meanwhile Turbo Tax had again shown this return to be error free before we submitted it to the IRS.
Its back to our tax accountant for us
Caveat Emptor
Rating: 1 / 5
VERY upset. Bought this product and paid extra for express delivery as I will be traveling outside of the country and need to get my taxes done ASAP. Wanted to get it done this weekend but could not even install the CD. It would only install 25% of the product before freezing. I shut off my computer and tried again. My computer said I had to uninstall the 25% before I could install again. Kept getting error message after error message after “Uninstall failed, will forward error to TurboTax”. Could not get anyone on the phone to speak with….only directs you to their website, which offers suggestions on how to correct the problem, but even after trying all the suggestions, none of them worked. This happened once before with Turbo Tax when trying to “update” the software…the software failed. I am returning and buying another tax product….or maybe I will try the online version….nothing to download or install. They should make sure the product is error free BEFORE releasing it to the public, not find out as you go.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have been a loyal satisfied customer with Amazon for years but………….
On Dec. 29, 2009 I received an email from them promoting TurboTax and advertising Premier for $60.95.
When I click to buy from the Amazon site the price is $71.49. I attempted to find a way to notify Amazon of this discrepency but found no way other than feedback which I will not get a reply to. So I am posting here. Hopefully this will get Amazon’s attention.
I am sure others had the same experience.
I have used Turbotax for years and plan to use again this tax season and am satisfied with the product.
Rating: 3 / 5
TurboTax is far below the standard you would expect from financial management software. Other reviewers who have been using it for years must have got used to the inconveniences.
Intuit software engineers have invented the most improbable quirks. Some genius figured out how to disable the Windows clipboard — so you cannot paste information into the registration form. Another innovation: you cannot use the Tab key to move the cursor to the next field. Bravo!
Don’t expect much support. On their web site you’ll find a chat interface inviting you to ask questions while telling you “I’m a robot.” Fine, but I am not.
Intuit software is self-promoting. They offer the opportunity to manage your privacy settings before you purchase — prior to having an account. Once you have have the account, you will not find privacy options on their web site.
If you are buying tax software for the first time, consider the other choices. Do not base your decision on the TurboTax or Intuit brand name.
Rating: 2 / 5
Turbo Tax Premier 2009 has terrible problems with the update function on Vista. For those familiar with the product it is critical to get updates and get the latest forms and tax laws updates. Every time I attempt to get updates the entire machine freezes. This is a known issue and Intuit directs us to download a patch on their website to fix it. After downloading the patch it seems to have finally updated but it hangs again on the success message.
These are fatal hangs and you can’t do anything else at all. You must hard shut down and start again. This has been a terrible experience and I’m just glad the machine has booted successfully.
Rating: 1 / 5