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H&R Block TaxCut 2006 Premium Federal + State

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• Reviewed by: emclouth

  Updated: 09-09-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:6 Months

  Strengths: Cost, Ease of Use, Printing of return summary

  Weaknesses: Lack of local forms

  Overall Evaluation: I have used TaxCut for several years. It is very convenient to use and recently contains both Federal and State together. This saves buying the software separately. It has a nice feature where you can print of summary of your returns. The first sheet is a summary of what you should mail in and where. Local tax forms for city tax aren't included. This drawback is minor. Overall it is a very good product and I recommend it.

• Reviewed by: lpicc65

  Updated: 04-15-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:4 Years

  Strengths: Cheaper than Turbotax and performs just as well

  Weaknesses: none so far

  Overall Evaluation: I have been using H&R Block's TaxCut for several years now. I have no complaints whatsoever with using this software. The interview process is very intuitive and easy to use. If you need more information on a particular IRS publication, just use the Help button to take you straight to the IRS link. You really can't beat the price, especially after any rebates. Never had an issue for several years now, using this product. Two thumbs up!!

• Reviewed by: atrus5

  Updated: 04-14-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

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  Strengths: More direct interface

  Weaknesses: Problems importing from Quicken

  Overall Evaluation: After using Quicken and TurboTax since 1997, let me first say that I am no longer a happy Intuit customer due to... -the TurboTax "spyware" registration a few years back, -the Quicken drop of QIF support, -Intuit requiring a fee for OFX usage by financial institutions so many do not support it, -the Quicken pop-up a few years back requiring me to buy a newer version to keep my financial download capability So I have been considering moving to Money/TaxCut but concerned about compatibility and lost data in the conversion. Now back to TaxCut... The biggest improvement over TurboTax is the more direct interface. In some ways it is simpler but overall I just felt that it was easier to navigate through. TurboTax always did what I needed but it seemed more convoluted and felt like they were trying to be too fancy. I did have some concerns with the pop-up input windows, however. It would have been nice if they maintained support for the scroll wheel. Also the "import" selection window could use a "select all" and "deselect all" if you have a lot of items to go through. It was much easier to go back through the forms afterward and find out where the data came from. the worksheets were right there or a right click on the item made it easy to trace. My biggest area of concern in converting was the import from Quicken. I assumed correctly that the import between 2 Intuit products (Quicken/TurboTax) would be better... - Tax exempt investments were imported and should not have been. (I did verify that they were correctly setup in Quicken.) - The import of previous years taxes worked correctly and nothing was lost. However, when I then imported from Quicken, the data was imported into new copies of my Schedule C, interest, etc. which required cutting and pasting to merge to the copies created from last year. - Re-importing data creates redundant "copies" which have to be manually found and eliminated. If I went back to Quicken to make a revision and then imported it again I would have to remove the redundant copies. TurboTax imports from Quicken never had these issues. I also like that TaxCut has fewer products to select from to avoid all the confusion at purchase time of what to buy. Bottom line, I think that TaxCut is a better designed product offered at a better price. However, if you will import a lot of data from Quicken, the choice might not be as clear.

• Reviewed by: xtopher13

  Updated: 04-12-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: Easy to use interface. Good documentation and help.

  Weaknesses: Doesn't show an ongoing tally of your taxes as you proceed.

  Overall Evaluation: It will cost you an addition $15.95 if you want to e-file using this version. There are other versions available that include e-filing. Online updates are efficiently executed.

• Reviewed by: misterfinsmiles

  Updated: 04-11-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: Easy install. Easy wizard use.

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: It's a great software package for $25. I had no problems. I like how you can view the forms while you're filling in the wizard. It's all doable by hand, but it's worth the $25 to have error checking, etc...

• Reviewed by: dtong_ny

  Updated: 04-02-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:4 Years

  Strengths: Low cost compared to others and it came with a REBATE. Easy installation with upgrades from manufacturer's website. Step by step instructions/interview for filling out the returns.

  Weaknesses: Although the software had "related to" links for entries while reviewing the return in FORM view, I'd would have like a link to take me back to the interview from the Open Form view.

  Overall Evaluation: I have used TAXCUT for several years (before I'd used TurboTax). This software is just as good as TurboTax but less expensive for my type of returns. I would recommend this software highly to anyone.

• Reviewed by: dxf1

  Updated: 03-27-07

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

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  Strengths: seems easier to use than turbotax

  Weaknesses: can't import financial data from brokerage firms such as Vanguard, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, etc

  Overall Evaluation: I'm not sure how turbo tax mangaged to lock up all the financial firms, but for anyone that has sold and bought stocks, this ability is VERY important. It seems that taxcut used to be able to do this, but not in the 2006 edition - it's too bad, I really wanted to switch from turbotax to taxcut. If you have a lot of financial data from brokerage firms to enter in your taxes, stay away from taxcut. Hold your nose (like I did) and just go with turbotax again.

• Reviewed by: c50

  Updated: 03-25-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: Easy to use software with federal tax advice and access to federal forms and publications. Very reasonably priced with store and manufacturer rebates also available.

  Weaknesses: Limited information to assist in preparing state return, other than standard form instructions.

  Overall Evaluation: I have been using TaxCut for a couple of years. Using the software is a vast improvement over pencil and paper when it comes to making adjustments and corrections. It checks the information you entered for errors (type of information entered and completeness), and automatically imports the previous year's information (if the return was prepared with a program). With the printed return it also prints a checklist of which forms and payments are to be submitted and the mailing addresses. E-filing is also available for an additional charge.

• Reviewed by: softorama

  Updated: 03-18-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:60 Days

  Strengths: Simple step by step instructions. Single version to avoid confusion.

  Weaknesses: Lack of e-file. High e-file costs.

  Overall Evaluation: I have been using taxcut for several years. I find it equivalent to other popular tax programs. The software provides easy step by step interview to help file taxes.This years version has additional advantage that it somes as Premium version only, so no choosing between, Deluxe, Premium etc.However, the software now does not offer free e-file. The e-file itself is quite costly (USD 32 + taxes).

• Reviewed by: goooo38104

  Updated: 03-10-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: Easy to install, easy to use. Instructions are clear and easy to understand.

  Weaknesses: None yet.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a very good tax software in my opinion, but my tax return was very simple. Still it saved me lot of time and energy. Plus with purchase of Taxcut, you can get many software for free, such as Norton, Microsoft Money etc. I definitely will buy the software next year.

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