Quicken TurboTax (Tax Year 2000)

by Intuit

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000050GEU
• Item model number: 242016
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 21, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,458 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Quicken TurboTax is a fast, easy, and complete way to do your taxes. It interviews you, completes the forms, and prints them out, ready to file--all in almost no time. EasyStep Interview will ask you simple questions, place the answers directly into IRS-approved forms, and perform all calculations automatically. TurboTax finds errors, overlooked deductions, and entries that could trigger an audit, and lets you file electronically to get your refund faster or prints your return onto IRS-approved forms. This version is revised and updated, and incorporates every tax-law change to guide you through your taxes and help you take advantage of more deductions. Bring over information from last year's tax return, so that you don't have to reenter your data. The Tax Advisor gives you custom money-saving tax advice as you complete your return. Receive a tax report in the form of a customized, printable action plan to which you can refer all year to save you money on next year's taxes. The Refund Monitor constantly displays your refund amount or tax due, and updates itself automatically as you enter new information. To see a snapshot of your taxable income and deductions in addition to your bottom line, double-click on the Refund Monitor to view the Tax Summary. The new TurboTax features a streamlined interface that puts everything in plain sight, and makes doing your taxes easier than ever.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Accurate, but Think Before Buying, February 5, 2001

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David Barth (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quicken TurboTax (Tax Year 2000) (CD-ROM)

This product makes taxes very easy. It does put a bunch of ads on your desktop, but those are easily removed. The one thing I would recommend considering is that www.turbotax.com also allows you to do your taxes on-line, without having to order the product. After rebates and everything, this on-line option ends up being the same price as what Amazon is offering (you'd save only the shipping and hassle of having to mail in the rebates). Also, you can get an additional rebate (on the on-line filing) through some on-line brokerage firms.

44 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful and accurate; a good value, December 13, 2000

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Bibliophile - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicken TurboTax (Tax Year 2000) (CD-ROM)

Despite paying for the services of a professional accountant, every year I regularly pick up the low-end copy of Quicken's TurboTax program (...it's a steal). I use it for estimating my taxes, making sure I have all the correct supporting details and receipts in advance, and checking my accountant's math. The estimation and preparation benefits save me time and headache far beyond the cost of the software.

I really like how TurboTax integrates with Quicken (which I also use). If you have religiously entered your data into Quicken, you can directly import your numbers into TurboTax and save yourself considerable time. Back when I had simpler taxes, this was the way I prepared everything and it worked great. I especially like running through "what if" scenarios: what if we added another child? what if we sold that damn rental property? what if I donated more? ...you get the picture. There are state modules that plug-in to TurboTax so you can prepare the whole thing, but since we're now in WA (no state income tax), I can't comment on those.

This year's program was very easy to use and seemed to work well. All of my data was easily imported from Quicken and allowed me to find out about how much I'm going to have to pay. As we approach Apr 15, you should check the Intuit web site for updates and patches to this program just in case they discover any problems.

For the money, you can't go wrong. Where else can you...get such a useful program?

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy the software, make your tax season easy., February 10, 2001

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"rajsoftware" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicken TurboTax (Tax Year 2000) (CD-ROM)

First off, do not fall into the "trap" of avoiding purchase by doing this online at turbotax.com !!!

You WANT to be able to save your data on your computer, back it up on disk, and access the following year. Do some of you work out of your home? Did you recently buy a computer? Not only can you get a tax break on this home business purchase, but you can write off yearly depreciation. Unless you want to learn the IRS's depreciation schedule for all items, use this softtware, save your file and when the next tax season comes along all depreciation will automaticly be accounted for. Of course this is just one example of WHY you should invest $20 and buy the software.

Need more reasons? If you ever have an audit, you can easily print out detailed reports with this software, and present them to an auditor. If you ever have gotten audited, you know how long and hard it is to do these reports by hand and calculator.

Preparing your taxes are not as hard as it is made out to be, if you use this software. It asks you questions, you answer them, if you don't understand a question it will break it down into "Simple English" and even cite examples. The whole process takes about an hour.

Have been using this software for four years now, no mistakes, no problems, and easier to do every year. This software keeps on improving. No need to spend a lot on the "deluxe" version, this will do all you need it to do. (If you are filing business taxes then you should get the deluxe version, this will not help you much).

The best feeling is knowing that you did your taxes, and knowing that you did them at your pace, and ensured that everything was fine. When you hire an accoutant or go to H+R block, these companies have employees who do 40-60 returns a day! There chances of making a typo or mistake is much greater than yours.

Do yourself a favor, invest $20 on this, do your taxes early, and have a fun April.