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- TurboTax Basic guides you through your federal return step-by-step
- Asks easy-to-understand questions in plain English then puts your answers onto IRS-approved forms
- Automatically double-checks your return for errors
- Files your return electronically and prints it on plain paper
- Free Federal E-File–receive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as few as 8 days
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Guides you through your federal return step-by-step.Amazon.com Product Description
If you have a simple return and would like step-by-step guidance, TurboTax Basic will help you get your biggest refund. Get Your Refund Fast: Efile Your 2009 Taxes with TurboTax
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TurboTax Basic Federal + efile 2009
January 13, 2010 at 6:32 pm
NOT AS GOOD AS 2008 TURBO – TOOK AWHILE TO TRANSFER LAST YEAR TXS.
DON’T LIKE THE ABILITY TO BRING UP ANY IRS FORM.
MIGHT BE TO REFINED????
Rating: 4 / 5
January 13, 2010 at 8:28 pm
This review is for TurboTax 2009 Deluxe for Federal Returns. Fortunately I live in Texas and there is no state income tax so I don’t have to worry about the state portion.
TurboTax has had its share of issues but I came back to it because it does seem to be the best there is, but I’m knocking off a star because of the history of issues I’ve had with the program in previous years (like it not calculating tax correctly until I deleted some assets and then re-entered them). However, I was a little shocked to read that it requires 500MB of HD space PLUS up to 620MB more if Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 is not installed (Mac is only 255MB). Wow! That could be over 1GB to do taxes. How inefficient we have become!
I just installed TurboTax Fed Deluxe on a Vista x64 system (it’s Jan 7th, 2010) and didn’t have any problems. In fact, it installed very quickly considering that it claims it needs 500MB (but I do have an SSD drive that greatly speeds things up). TurboTax immediately found 4 updates and asked me if I wanted to update. The updates seemed to have installed just fine. “Uninstall or change a programs” says TurboTax 2009 is using 343MB. It says TurboTax 2008 (from last year and still on my computer) is “only” 162MB, so a BIG increase (but I wonder how accurate are these figures?). In any case, even 1GB of space is not a big requirement nowadays.
I will be working with this to help estimate my 2009 taxes before I pay may Jan 15th estimated tax payment.
NOTE: Deluxe will do a Schedule C just fine, but it may not provide as much help as the Home & Business version. If you have been doing taxes yourself for awhile then you might not need to pay the extra money for the additional help. The same with other editions, TurboTax encourages “overbuying” just to get “extra guidance”, the “audit meter”, and/or “It’s Deductible”. All forms are included with all the editions.
I will update this review as I continue to use the product.
Pros:
* All editions include all forms
* Works on 64-bit versions of Windows XP and higher (of course that includes Vista and Windows 7)
* On Jan 8th, I used it to help compute an estimate of the tax I will owe for 2009 to help determine what to pay for my last 2009 estimated tax payment and the program did not crash.
* I had a “flawless” install and update on Vista 64-bit – didn’t ask for any serial or reg code
* Probably the best tax program there is
* Price includes federal E-File
* Deluxe version can do a Schedule C for the self-employed – but it doesn’t provide as much guidance as the Home & Business edition
Cons:
* Not perfect (but how can US taxes ever be perfect)?
* Annoying “smart” input entries that try to format things like dates while you’re still entering them
* Bad/complicated handling of SEP contributions
* Have encountered bugs in previous years that caused me to have to delete and re-enter assets
* Might take up to 1.12GB of HD space on Windows according to the system requirements
Rating: 4 / 5
January 13, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Excellent Product! I used it to do my taxes and found an extra $200 that I didn’t know I could get!
Rating: 5 / 5