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TaxCut Platinum takes the guesswork out of preparing your taxes, and turns tax time into a pain-free, logical, educational, and simplified experience.
It seemed like TaxCut Platinum was easier to use this year than ever. Navigating through taxable income, deductions, and penalties is far less tedious than it used to be. With TaxCut Platinum you can easily enter your W-2 information (and depending on your employer, some W-2s can be automatically populated), view educational videos on current tax law, and take an interview to see if you qualify for a specific section. TaxCut Platinum also lets you skip any steps with which you are already familiar, and easily return to any section of the form.
As is standard with most of these programs, you must purchase state tax software separately from the federal program. However, TaxCut Platinum includes rebate coupons for your state program and electronic filing fees. Once you have installed your state program, all the information you have already entered into your federal return will be automatically read by the state program. Once you've finished with both returns you can choose the format in which you want to file them: by mail or electronically. TaxCut Platinum will walk you through either process with printing and mailing instructions and electronic filing guidelines.
New features this year include Retirement Savings Enhancer, 9-Year Tax Preview, Home Office Assistant, and Portfolio Manager. Improvements have been made to the Error Check and Entry Manager features. TaxCut Platinum also includes professional tax advice from H&R Block.
While enjoyable is certainly not the first adjective that comes to mind when preparing your tax return, TaxCut Platinum certainly makes the process more than bearable. --Kendra Hayden
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The wealth of tax tools & advice you need to get the most back from your taxes!
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95 of 96 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Suprisingly Well Done!,
By A Customer
This review is from: TaxCut Platinum 2002 (CD-ROM)
I was a hard core Turbotax fan for many years, this year because of the TurboTaxs' product activation I chose to buy Taxcut and 'lo and behold it was every bit as easy as TurboTax. My Hats off to the Taxcut crew. I found the deduction finder useful and not laborious and the wizards we're easy to use. The feature I liked the most was being able to exit out of the wizard and enter in values where needed without having to "completely" exit the wizard (as is the case with TurboTax)"
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intuit TurboTax - you're fired!,
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This review is from: TaxCut Platinum 2002 (CD-ROM)
I used TurboTax since 1989, but I switched to TaxCut after Intuit initiated their draconian license activation complete with spyware! I will never use TurboTax again. TaxCut is just as good.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not for heavy-duty tax preparation.,
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This review is from: TaxCut Platinum 2002 (CD-ROM)
TaxCut Platinum is fine if you are doing a relatively simple return and don't need too much help. I bought TaxCut Platinum based upon recommendations to avoid TurboTax due to privacy issues. I have used TurboTax for the past several years. I will be going back to it this year. While preparing my daughter's very simple return, with itemized deductions, I had a couple of questions during the interview process. Mostly, I was seeking definitions of the terms in the interview questions. The help files didn't even provide detailed explanations of the questions asked in the interview. There was also no help available from any on-disk books except for the IRS's own instructions. TurboTax Deluxe, by contrast, includes Money Magazine's Income Tax Handbook as well as other useful help. TaxCut Platinum also does not provide for supporting worksheets to enter data. TurboTax, however, allows you to itemize each vehicle's property tax (for example) on a worksheet. Then TurboTax uses the total for the IRS form. The worksheets print for you alone and are not submitted to the IRS. This is a very helpful way to keep itemized records of individual expenditures without writing each one down separately, but it isn't available from TaxCut Platinum. TaxCut Platinum pretends to show your tax owed or refund amount as you go, but even on my daughter's relatively simple return the amount never changed during the data entry. The program apparently was not thoroughly tested, as the text sometimes was not visible, and no amount of scrolling attempts could make it so. In spite of the on-line registration issues for TurboTax, I will be ordering a copy of it for my return, which involves numerous deductions, depreciation, employee business expenses, and other items that should not be that complicated. After all, I put up with the on-line registration from Microsoft for Windows XP. I feel that TurboTax is worth the nuisance and minor intrusion. If you don't want to have Intuit know about your computer, buy TaxCut, but don't expect the sophistication from TaxCut that you get from TurboTax.
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