H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State Win/Mac
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Software Reviews of H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State Win/Mac
Customer Review: Worth every cent, if it's free
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought Taxcut this year because it was inexpensive and included business tax forms for my partnership. For the money I guess I'm satisfied with the partnership results, but that's where it ends.
Taxcut for Federal taxes is not integrated with Taxcut for business... ok so what do you want for cheap. But, it also isn't well integrated with the Massachusetts state tax version, leaving me to go figure how to deal with what it calls "special" situations (unreimbursed partner expenses and interest from out of state banks, for example). Overriding form data is painful and the program complains that if I override calculated data I can not e-file (not that I would trust it to e-file my taxes). Form navigation is hopeless. I can only imagine what someone who isn't experienced with tax preparation could accomplish with this mess.
I filed for an extension; now I'm probably going to buy Turbotax to do the actual federal and state returns.
With a deep discount, I would probably purchase Taxcut again for the partnership taxes, because it is slightly easier to use than the Excel spreadsheets I'd been using (but only because I don't have to copy the numbers from the spreadsheets into the forms).
Honestly, you would think there would be some tax software that is better than the non-functional Taxcut without the overblown, fatty and expensive too-many-talking-heads Turbotax alternative!
Customer Review: Throw it away, it's bad news
Summary: 1 Stars
Have just spent 2.5 hours struggling with TC for Mac. Wrong info, bad interviews, uneditable forms, credits missing. (No combo of keys appears to pull up the override feature.) Dangerous. Throw it away, do your taxes by hand or find an accountant.Customer Review: Beware!
Summary: 1 Stars
I tried to use this program to file a very simple return, and it calculated that I owed the state $550 for underpayment, as well as a $230 penalty for late payment.
I tried working through the program several times to find the error. I found that the program was automatically checking boxes that I hadn't checked! I have no idea if that was the cause of the underpayment problem, which I was not able to resolve.
In frustration, I went to [...] and filed my return easily within an hour, with a $140 return from the state rather than a $780 penalty!
Customer Review: Beware and double check your results!!! - This product could cost you much more than $25!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This program sucks. I used it last year and thought that it was unwieldy and really confusing (i.e. unlike TurboTax and other programs, there's very little transparency in the system). Then I bought it again this year because the store that I went to was out of Turbotax, and I needed to get my taxes done quickly. This year was even worse than last year - not only was it still unwieldy and irritating, but it gave me figures that simply did not make sense. The results for the federal return were OK, but it gave me figures that would have cost me over $2,000 in taxes that I did NOT owe on my state return. I ended up going online to double check my results using a cheap ($10) online service recommended by the NY state tax website. Within 45 minutes, I cleared the online source, and got results that made far more sense. I have no idea what happened with TaxCut, but I suspect that they may have been missing a field somewhere along the line - this is a problem that has been noted by a number of others in reviews on a variety of sites. I will NOT be buying this product again.Customer Review: Taxcut 2006, Federal
Summary: 4 Stars
Worked fine for standard items. Did not handle Partnership issues completely. Would be good to have a preview of the finished return before printed (maybe this is possible, but I did not find this function).
In general, an easy, straightforward program that gets the job done.