H&R Block At Home 2009 Premium Federal + State + eFile [OLD VERSION]

by H&R Block

Product Features

• H&R Block At Home Premium includes everything you need to easily complete your federal and state taxes, plus five free federal e-files
• Ideal for homeowners, investors, rental property owners, and self-employed Schedule C filers
• Easily import W-2, 1099, and data from last year's return; quickly import data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, and Microsoft Money software
• Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income; H&R Block DeductionPro software to maximize tax savings from donations
• Money-saving tools for self-employed Schedule C filers; Advice, tips, and planning tools for the upcoming year

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002SR0QDO
• Item model number: 1536600-09
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 1, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #50 in Software > Tax Preparation

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

H&R Block At Home Premium includes everything you need to easily complete your federal and state taxes, plus five free federal e-files.

Everything you need to easily complete your federal and state taxes. Click to enlarge.

Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income. Click to enlarge.

Personalized tax guidance for popular occupations... Click to enlarge.

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With a new, easy-to-use interface, H&R Block At Home Premium searches for hundreds of deductions to get customers the biggest refund. Ideal for homeowners, investors, rental property owners, and self-employed Schedule C filers, the program includes features available only from H&R Block, such as built-in expertise, live tax advice from an H&R Block tax professional and audit support with guidance, plus an H&R Block enrolled agent to represent customers in the event of an audit.

At Home Premium

Self-Employed / Rental Property Owners
The right choice for customers with more complex tax situations to easily complete their federal and state returns. Includes five free federal e-files and built-in expertise available only from H&R Block.

Includes these features:

• Customized interview process to help customers easily complete their federal and state taxes.
  
  
• Five free federal e-files.
  
  
• Personalized tax guidance for popular occupations and specific deductions, plus answers to FAQs.
  
  
• Live tax advice from an H&R Block tax professional.
  
  
• Audit support with guidance, plus an H&R Block enrolled agent to represent you in the event of an audit. Included when you file a federal or state return.
  
  
• Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income.
  
  
• Money-saving tools for self-employed Schedule C filers.
  
  
• Advice, tips, and planning tools for the upcoming year.
  
  
• Easily import W-2, 1099, and data from last year's return.
  
  
• Quickly import data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and H&R Block DeductionPro software.
  
  
• H&R Block DeductionPro software to maximize tax savings from donations.
  
  

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Product Description

Guidance for all your personal tax situations. Federal forms and State forms. Step-by-step interviews guide you through a customized experience relevant to your tax situation. Everything you need to prepare your federal and state taxes in one complete program.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars maclots, December 21, 2009

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This review is from: H&R Block At Home 2009 Premium Federal + State + eFile [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have both the Windows and the Mac platform. H&R has been producing an excellent Tax product that work smoothly on both platforms. I use my H&R on my Windows at my business and then bring it home and load on my Mac and continue without a problem. Mac users know that Intuit, the producer of Turbo Tax, has brought us many years of the disfunctional Quicken products and false promises of new products for years. And Window users know Intuit (producers of Turbo Tax) users are forced to pay and update to products that don't perform as well because Intiut discontinues the ability of the programs to fully function after a few years. This company has a lot of cash but prefers to spend its time figuring how to ring an extra buck out of the user rather than fulfilling the users needs.
I use my H&R Tax product to assist family and friends in the preparing their taxes. If you want to use Turbo Tax on more than a couple of computers. The Turbo Tax program won't by design load on another computer without purchasing another copy. Too bad for you if you have a computer crash. You still have to pay them when you file based on how many files you pay for in the package. Turbo Tax costs more than the H&R.
H&R is user friendly. You can load your last year tax information from other tax preparations programs without a problem. If you a first time user just take your last years file and fill in the information using your new data. It's not that hard. If you have a question give them a call. There is a lot of support on line as well.
The H&R program is performing smoothly again this year. I file personally a tax return of at least 27 pages. I had a high end tax accountant do my taxes years ago. It was expensive. They made mistakes. That meant not only was my federal return messed up but then the state started sending me letters for years. The last straw was when they called me up on Easter and said they said they couldn't finish my taxes on time to file tomorrow even though they had my well organized data 8 weeks ago.
My sister was blind and a tax service prepared her taxes with a written guarantee that they would pay if they made a mistake. When I went over her return they had given the IRS an extra $100 (in case they made a mistake) in such a way that the IRS would not be returning the $100 as an error. H&R tax program picked it up and we filed again.
When you fill out your Taxes with the H&R you have an audit program which can pick up errors and as you go through the questions so you might see ideas on how you can qualify for deduction for this or next years. It sure has helped me.
I don't work or am not related to anyone that works for or own company stock. I have never gone to a H&R Block preparer.
H&R block tax programs are reasonable priced and well written with the customer needs their first concern.

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Use--Can Use with Macs and PC's, December 26, 2009

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This review is from: H&R Block At Home 2009 Premium Federal + State + eFile [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have used H&R Blocks tax program for many years and have always been happy with it. This year is no exception. It works great on my mac. My taxes are complicated because I have rental properties (and in the past my own business as well)--but it makes preparing my taxes a breeze---and way cheaper than hiring someone.

You can choose to import data or enter all data manually. I actually enter mine in manually as that is my preference. (actually, to clarify, i import previous years taxes but manually enter w-2s, charitable contribution, rental income and expenses, etc)

This includes 5 free federal efiles (which isn't as good, in my opinion, as when it included 1 state and 1 federal). The state program is included with this but if you want to efile you have to pay for that.

For anyone that has to pay state taxes in addition to federal, it is great to have the two programs. Essentially, the state taxes are filled out by the time you get done with the federal--with the exception of a few questions that you have to answer. You can always purchase the state later rather than getting them together, however, i have found that it is more expensive to do it that way.

If you haven't used tax software before or are new to this brand---it is super duper easy to use. They have questions and you fill in the blanks. You can get more information and help with any topic you need. You can also get the actual publication information from the IRS. Tax preparation may sound intimidating, but with a program like this it is very simple.

With H&R block you also get access to a tax advisor for free (for 1 issue)--which can be helpful and is an advantage of this vs. other brands.

In addition you get audit assistance with this if you efile--although hopefully you will never need it.

Even if you have difficult taxes, don't be scared to try this product before going to a professional. You will most likely find that it is much easier than you think. And H&R block offers a money back guarantee so you really have nothing to lose.

Updates are free and essentially automatic--it does ask you permission to update--but that is pretty much the extent of it.

For safety purposes I always back up my taxes to a CD AND load the tax software and my taxes on a second computer--perhaps a bit neurotic but i'd rather be safe. It is extremely easy to do back ups. Also, I have several years of taxes loaded onto my computer and when i switched from primarily PC's to primarily MACs i was able to transfer all of my taxes over without a problem or hassle.

Because you get 5 free efiles, you can do your friends taxes if you want to be nice. I always register the product in my name but usually do 4 different returns. You can also choose to print and file returns if you would like also.

Another feature I like is that i can do "what if" scenarios--i will go in and change numbers to see how it effects my taxes so i can better estimate for future years.

H&R Block also will give you tips/warnings/suggestions if there are any red flags or errors on your return.

UPDATE: as of 2/22 I have successfully efiled 3 federal and state returns. i did not have any issues with efiling at all. although, i realized i made an error earlier in this review because when i went to file, i realized you get audit support if you efile or paper file--as long as you used the program to help you on your taxes.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So easy, January 8, 2010

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This review is from: H&R Block At Home 2009 Premium Federal + State + eFile [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Went from Turbo Tax to this. Extremely easy. And if you need asssitance, you can actually speak to someone who speaks the English language. Also, no extra fee for e file.