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TurboTax Deluxe Federal + E-file + State 2011
- Guides you step by step to get your maximum refund
- Automatically double-checks your return for errors
- Includes Audit Risk Meter which helps you reduce your chance of an audit
- Includes Free Federal E-File
- Plus, includes a download of one TurboTax State product
TurboTax Deluxe: Guides you step-by-step to maximize your deductions
List Price: $ 59.95
Price: $ 7.99
HOLD OFF,
Let me first say that I have always used Turbo Tax and will continue to do so. However, I bought the 2011 yesterday and installed it on my Mac, running Lion. The install was fine, BUT I was then asked if I wanted to install 3 updates (a never ending, but necessary function for tax software). I agreed and after being patient, as requested by the update, for over 30 minutes, I realized that the install had frozen my computer and I had to Force Quit my Mac. Thinking that this was just a fluke, I tried it again and the same thing happened during the install, including the Force Quit. I then decided to reinstall Turbo Tax and not agree to the update. It worked, but it couldn’t find the Turbo Tax 2010 automatically and I had to find it myself for this function to work. Hopefully, for 2011, the ability to password protect my return will work since, for whatever reason, the password protect doesn’t work on Mac – this was confirmed by Turbo Tax Support last year.
My conclusion- Intuit was in such a rush to get the product on the shelves for Black Friday and sell as many as they could as soon as possible, that they didn’t really care about how good a product they were selling initially thinking they could always correct problems with updates- too bad they didn’t think about how to correct an update problem which will prevent any corrections to take place.
I would wait a month or so until to buy Turbo Tax and let Intuit fix all the bugs rather than get frustrated. Tax returns are not a lot of fun, so why double the pain?
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|2ND NOTICE TO HOLD OFF,
Just in case you aren’t sure about the first notice to hold off, be advised this early version will hang when it tries to automatically update and it will not automatically find your 2010 data to transfer.
Recommend you hold off until the new version Intuit promises on 15 December as this version was rushed out too quickly.
I have been a loyal customer of Intuit’s for both Turbo Tax and Quicken for over 15 years. One of these year’s I’ll bite the bullet and make a transfer to something else since Intuit really doesn’t seem to care whether I purchase their products or not. I do appreciate that Intuit Turbo Tax VP Bob Meigan posts here and on other forums — but if an Intuit VP has to spend his time trolling the web doing damage control something is really, really wrong!
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|Buy now, if the price is right!,
I’ve used TurboTax for many years and trust Intuit with calculating and filing my taxes.
I’ve read a few poor reviews for TurboTax 2011 as they mention some software bugs. But I don’t agree with their advice to hold off on purchasing, as the updates from Intuit will be available via Internet software updates. Intuit will not be pulling the current boxed version off the store shelves and replacing them with an updated revision. TurboTax, as well as the competition, often do scheduled updates throughout the tax season from the original boxed release of the product for that tax year.
My advice is if you find TurboTax priced right, buy it and wait to install (or begin your taxes) until the initial updates are released. It is advised that you always check for updates every time you execute the program to work on your taxes or file.
I purchased my copy of TurboTax from Amazon at 17% off List Price with Free Super Saver Shipping.
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