Customer Reviews

Quicken TurboTax (Tax Year 2000)

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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.

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?

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.

I've used turbo tax for the last two years to prepare my taxes and find it to be very user friendly. The software walks you through step by step and provides prompts to enter information when needed. I plan to use Turbo Tax to prepare my 2000 taxes.

I have used Quicken's Turbo Tax Deluxe since 1996. The main difference between TurboTax and TurboTax Deluxe is the on-line reference books. Since I work in accounting, I prefer the extra detail to be handy. I have also purchased the State version annually, (MI)and have always ordered the disk version, because my computer was slow on downloads. Besides if you have a computer crash, or otherwise have to reinstall the software, it is handy to have the program on disk.

In the five years that I have used this program, I have found the Easy Step review system to reduce tax preparation time from hours to less than an hour. The most time consuming part of tax preparation is now collecting all the paperwork. I have also taught my teen-to-young adult age children how to do their own taxes, using this software. This tax preparation software can handle complex returns, even filing 1040X an amended return which I did once, several years ago. Mostly I use it for ordinary stuff like mortgage interest, real estate tax, 1040A deduction calculations and such. I heartily recommend it as an excellent value and easy-to-use.

This is my third year using Quicken TurboTax and it will be my first year using the state tax version. I'm sold on it. I can't imagine going back to pen and paper to do taxes. The program takes you step-by-step through the tax process by asking you questions about the various sections of the forms. It also prompts you to make you remember about things that may have slipped you mind, like other deductions. And, it makes suggestions for deductions that you may not have thought about. At the end of the process you can print out the forms for mailing in the traditional format or in a format that's easy for the IRS computers to read. In addition, you can opt to file electronicly. The help section IS very helpful. It actually makes sense of the rules and instructions for filing your taxes and explains the relevant sections of the tax code in easy to understand language. My one suggestion is that you have all your papers with you before you start the process. You can, of course, save your work and come back to finish or edit it, but it is a pain to be half way through and remember that your mortgage statement is two floors away.

My advice: Don't do your taxes without it.

In 1999, I filed taxes for the first time in my life. As a 22-year old, I was a bit nervous. Fears of the IRS came into my head. But fortunately, there's TurboTax and it works great! It was so easy, I just filled in the information from my paperwork and zip! It was off to the IRS. I received my tax refund via direct deposit TWO WEEKS LATER...that's right, both federal and state refunds arrived in my account two weeks after I filed. If that's not an incentive to file electronically, I don't know what would be.

Needless to say, I will definitely file electronically this year and TurboTax is my product of choice.

i got the 1999 version and it was an outstanding program, made it very easy to do my taxes by myself in my home. this years turbotax is just as good if not better, i was very pleased with it, i you are going to buy a program to do your taxes i would buy this one

Last year I bought this from Amazon. We tried to mail in the rebate form and there was a requirement to attach the receipt.

Just to make sure, we called Intuit and was told the rebate is not for online purchases, but for over the counter purchases only. We never got the rebate. Any one had any luck so far? I like buying it from amazon, but do not want to be cheated again.

Still waiting for $5!!!!

Great for simple tax filings...I have used this for the past 4 years and it works great. I have only my mortgage and a couple of donations each year, however it can go much more in depth. Would recomend to anyone.