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About Intuit TurboTax

TurboTax is a user-friendly tax software program for individuals, self-employed filers and business owners. Choose from three levels of tax help: do-it-yourself, assisted and full-service. TurboTax is available in every state, and it covers every tax situation, including free basic files. TurboTax is also available in Spanish, though it does have some limitations with filing in that language.

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  • Free audit support
  • Spanish-language service available
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  • No in-person locations
  • State return extra

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    Reviewed March 17, 2007

    Bought the premier version of Turbo Tax because I had income from a residential rental. the program asked for my 1099 info plus a few rental questions and then continued with other income sources. At no time did the program ask for my rental expenses even after the final review. I had to manually find the form and make the entries. I sent a complaint to Turbo Tax but they never replied. A few days later their customer service unit asked about their responce and I notified them I never received one. Since then I have not received a single reply.

    Luckily I've been reporting rental income over the years and knew where to look. If someone was not familiar with rentals this problem would cost them several thousand tax dollars.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2007

    Did online filing through turbotax. stated they charge $15. Charged me $40.96 and they never filed my taxes.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2007

    The 2006 TurboTax Deluxe failed to transfer federal tax-exempt income from boxes 8 and 9 of a 1099 form to the state program (Iowa). This state taxes most municipal dividends and interest from other states. A careful effort was made to make certain that the income was entered diring the federal interview. The problem was only detected during manual calculations on paper.

    Intuit failed to respond to e-mail and never made a scheduled telephone call. I had to do my state taxes manually. By the time that a software update was issued on 02/22, I had already submitted both my federal and state return. I believe that my return is accurate but it cost me about 6 hours of checking and testing the TurboTax software. Anyone in Iowa who owns partially tax-exempt investments and used TurboTax to submit a state return before 02/23/07 may be in for a real surprise at auditing time. If the bonds or mutual funds from other states were not claimed in Iowa, the penalties could be significant.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2007

    Software is error prone & tech support is in Pakistan. You will be disconnected and have a tough time conversing with these drones. They read out error responses from prompt screens and will constantly ask for your name number & zip etc then you will need to spell i out each time. One of the most frustrating experiences ever. Never again will i buy a product from Intuit.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2007

    Tried to install the Turbo Tax CD that I'm sent every year. Screens froze at payment screen. Tried several times, different times of day. No Luck.

    Called their support. They informed me that they were aware of bad cd's being sent. Advised me to buy and download online. Tried to do so. Same result.

    Went to store and bought cd. Installed. After initial installation it asks if you want to download latest updates. Clicked 'yes'. Told me I didn't have permissions. Made sure the firewall and virus software were disabled, checked permissions, tried again. No luck. Called their support. Their automated support line (can't get a person) said an update cd would be sent mid March - a month and a half AFTER I need it.

    No problem in other years, but now I'm headed to buy a different tax software. I'm out $50 and hours that I've been dealing with this.

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2007

    On 01/23/2007 my husband and I decided to use turbotax online after seeing a discount for it on our banks website. We e filed state and federal taxes and paid the $45.90 for both. I even upgraded to TURBOTAX ONLINE DELUXE DEDUCTION MAXIMIZER; which is a money waisted when I found these myself anyway. I then think everything is ok until I get an email stating my state and fed e file was rejected. Federal said I did not have the correct AGI from last year and State said I changed my SSN!

    After comparing both State and Fed files from 2005 and 2006...I see that the SSN is correct on both tax returns and I made no errors on the AGI either. I then called intuit only to find out that their system was updating and messed up my efile. He even said my second efile will reject as well because their systems are still updating. This was AFTER they tried to blame it on me! It took an hour to be blamed on my end and 20 minutes on hold to find out their tech support told the guy it's their end! Oh, and no refund...I have to either print and mail my returns, keep efiling until their glitches get worked out (if that ever happens), or pay HR Block to do my taxes!

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    Reviewed April 23, 2006

    I recieved a letter in the mail stating the cost of online tax service as $9.99, including state and federal filings. Once I reached the billing section, the site stated the cost would be $49 dollars!!! This is the same site I have used in two previous years without complaint.

    Stating the cost at $9.99 is false advertising!!!!!

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    Reviewed March 10, 2006

    No problem preparing all forms, but program will not print for completion until program has been updated for omissions and/or additions to 2005 tax laws. It looks like I must now wait A MONTH before my data can be released to the IRS. I bought an outdated CD for $50 and Intuit is not prepared to immediately correct the situation. Looks to me like this is their year to really lose loyal customers and I am one of them.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2006

    My wife and I were preparing our 2005 taxes using Turbo Tax Online. When preparing the Federal taxes, there weren't any problems. However, when we got to doing the State taxes, the TT Program automatically transferred the information from Federal to State. However, it made a mistake in considering an "income" as a "deduction". This meant that instead of us having to PAY taxes on our income, we were getting an "easy" out from the Program (by not paying taxes to the state). Does Turbo Tax take the liability for that? Probably NOT!

    Everytime we changed the name of the employer on the Federal Income information, THAT changed our state refund! Isn't that great!! We spent $19.95 on the State Tax part of Turbo Tax. And now we have to redo our State manually.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2005

    I filled out my Federal & State tax forms - no problem. I had refunds for both - e-filed with a return confirmation. However, when my Federal refund was deposited into my account it was not the correct amount. In fact it was 87% less. I have sent emails to Turbo with no replies and do not know my recourse to have this corrected.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2005

    I have used Turbo Tax for a number of years and had no problem until this year 2004. On entering information for an investment property I was nver asked for the straight line depreciation that I had been taking for 30 years under the old rules. Also on entering IRA disributions from two sources, one went to the proper IRA line, the other to pensions. Both were placed in two different places by the same interview questions on Turbo Tax.

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    Reviewed March 31, 2005

    We have used Turbo Tax for at least five years, and never had any problems. This year, however, so many glitches have occured, we feel we have wasted our money and our time. Our first run through with the interview resulted in calculations by the program that multiplied numbers entered and called for a tax of nearly $100,000 owed the US government. After trying to trace where the final numbers came from and finding forms filled out that we never use, we gave up and started a whole new tax form. This time the end result was a tax refund of $600, and the discovery that a capital gains from the sale of business was entered on one form but not transferred to any other forms.

    After overriding and hand entering the correct information, we had a bottom line of $9000 in taxes owed. Even so, we started downloading publications and forms and tax tables and discovered, that if these current numbers are calculated correctly, the tax owed was not. And everytime we try to change a number- something we've done easily in the past years- Turbo Tax simply adds the new number to the old one and the tax is based on that, although the form seems to contain only the newer number.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2005

    I used Federal Turbo Tax and no problem...When I went to do my own Colorado State taxes, I ran into a question on Line 7. After some consideration, I decided to download State forms believing It would automatically fill in the State forms using my federal forms information (As promised by TurboTax). After all everything they need to know is in the Federal information... After downloading State, Line 7 was left blank and the program asked me the question I wanted answered. (Exclusions for Pensions and anuities).

    1. The State Turbo Tax form is useless....

    2. I posted a question with Turbo Tax and they never responded to my email as they promised.

    3. Since I downloaded from the internet, I could not fill out their forms requesting a refund (No account number??)

    4. If indeed there is someone I could talk to I can't figure it out.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2004

    I used their Turbo Tax Deluxe to do my taxes and H & R Block found many inaccuracies which would have cost me $2,500 plus interest. It cost me $150 to pay H & R Block to correct the mistakes made by Turbo Tax Deluxe.

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