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![TurboTax Federal + State Deluxe Deduction Maximizer 2006 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41s5qcDc8FL._SL160_.jpg)
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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
TurboTax vsTaxAct , 2007-09-12
I do my taxes by going through my income and deduction items and putting them into my tax return, i.e. I am using the "forms method". I have no comment about the relative merits of the "interview method" of TurboTax and TaxAct. My income consists of Social Security, pensions, dividends, interest, a real estate partnership in two states other than NY where I live, commodity trades and tax refunds. For 2006 I used both TurboTax and TaxAct since I wanted to be sure that TaxAct, which costs less than half of what TurboTax costs, will in the future be just as good for my purposes.
I found the much cheaper TaxAct more convenient to use, because it is somewhat easier to find and open forms in TaxAct than in TurboTax. TaxAct does have the annoying property that even on a screen with plenty of room to spare, certain words of the forms don't appear. For instance, NY IT-201 line 72 is: "Total New York State Tax withheld..." and line 73 is "Total New York City tax withheld..." On the TaxAct screen both lines become "Total NY Tax withheld...". I should say, if you print out the page the missing words reappear, and in any case the two items are imported by the program from another form, but even so, this is a disturbing defect.
Neither TurboTax MA nor TaxAct MA has schedule 3K-1 which I needed for the real estate partnership, and I filled in the MA tax forms by hand.
Both TaxAct and TurboTax can convert your tax return, either with or without all the worksheets and 1099 forms, into a .pdf document. The document can be very long, and TurboTax produces a table of contents which makes it easy to find what one wants.
I noticed one difference between the tax computations. TurboTax just deducted from my NY tax what I paid to MA and RI, where I am nonresident. TaxAct allowed me to deduct only amounts it computed using a complicated formula one is supposed to use. I think it computes roughly the smaller of the taxes I paid to the other states and what the NY tax would have been on the amounts earned in those states.
One disadvantage of TaxAct for me was that it does not offer a RI state tax program.
I asked for help from TaxAct by e-mail twice, well after April 15th. On both occasions they replied within hours and the replies answered my questions.
Next year I will use only TaxAct.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Have used this ptroduct for years!, 2007-08-14
I have used TurboTax tax preparation software for six years. While I no longer have to use the State tax part of the software, I always found it to be reliable and accurate for whatever state I needed. The Federal portion of the software is very complete and provides a thorough walk-through of even the most complex forms. We use it for our small LLC corporation as well. I would not think of changing to another software provider as long as TurboTax fulfills my tax preparation needs as well as it does now.
TurboTax, 2007-07-20
Great product and very easy to use. The price was a little high and I could have bought it cheaper in a store. I will buy it again.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not worth the extra dough! , 2007-07-12
TT is good and cleaner but not noticeably better enough to justify the much higher price than taxcut. I purchased TT for the first time this year because I wanted to do my taxes on my Mac. I had used taxcut on my mac in the past with good results but taxcut had abandoned the Mac platform and forced me to use my PC. Fortunately I was able to port my info between taxcut Mac and Taxcut PC. I was unable to port my last years taxcut PC to my Turbotax Mac version this year. Overall TurboTax was smooth and direct. I normally go with the adage that 'you get what you pay for' and don't mind paying more for quality. In this case I did not see the justification. Also, if you're not in a rush for your return, I would recommend printing out your taxes from either package and mailing them in. The e-file costs have gone up way too high this year. Buy the 40 cent stamp and save.
11 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Say NO To Audit Defense Option!!, 2007-07-09
The Turbo Tax software was really useful. HOWEVER they offer you "Audit Defense", a service that is supposed to represent you if you are ever Audited by the IRS. Well guess what, I was audited by the IRS. The accountant that they assigned to my case was in Pennsylvania (I live in DC, my case was being reviewed in DC). The guy NEVER called to ask what my situation was. After I initiated the call, he tried to tell me not to "fight the 2005 audit and maybe they will let the 2004 audit slide". I wasn't trying to "fight" anything, I wanted someone to Present My Case! After my date was up, I didnt hear from the guy, 3 weeks later I get a letter in the mail from the IRS saying I owe money because I didnt show XYZ information. DO NOT GET THE AUDIT DEFENSE! It is like going to court with a Public Defender, you are asking to lose...
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