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TaxCut Premium provides extra tools and advice to help you save money on your federal taxes. You'll get valuable tools for managing home ownership, investments, and retirement planning.
Features:
- H&R Block Premium Tax Tips: Better tips to save you money with more than 25 new topics including charitable deductions, rentals, dividends, interest, capital gains, and more.
- Home Ownership and Rental Tools and Advice: understand how home ownership and rental property can affect your taxes:
- Home Basis Assistant: easily determine your home's true tax basis when selling, so you can accurately calculate your capital-gains tax liability.
- Vacation Rental Assistant: accurately calculate vacation rental taxes by evaluating personal and rental use of your vacation property, to make sure you're adding it up correctly.
- Sale of Rental Property: get strategies to maximize tax benefits.
- Rental Property Assistant: Maximize your rental property savings. Rental Property Assistant provides tax tips and reminds you of overlooked deductions so you can get the most from your rental investment.
- Mortgage Advisor: get the most from the tax benefits of your home loan.
- Depreciation Assistant: money-saving advice about depreciating assets.
- Investment Tools and Advice: get tax-saving tips on managing your investments, stock gains/losses and deductions, and more:
- Investment Income: find out how the new tax laws apply to your income.
- Restricted Stock: get information on this new employee stock trend.
- Guidance on Capital Loss Carryovers: don't miss this deduction.
- Wash Sale Assistance: easily report your wash sales and get tax advice.
- Capital Gains Assistant: takes the mystery out of capital gains tax calculations by helping you navigate this portion of your return, so you can accurately calculate the cost basis for different types of securities, including stocks, bonds, or mutual funds.
- Children with Investment Income: guidance for reporting this income.
- Maximize After-Tax Performance: import Schedule D from Gainskeeper.
- Stock Options Advisor: get answers to all stock-options questions, including the consequences of your transactions on all types of options, including incentive, nonqualified, and employee stock.
- Decipher Broker Statements: understand complicated broker statements.
- Free H&R Block Ask A Tax Advisor After Rebate: Get live expert tax advice online or by phone from a trained H&R Block tax professional when you purchase the Ask A Tax Advisor option within the program. You'll pay just $19.95 per session and receive one free session after mail-in rebate.
- Premium Retirement Tools and Advice: make the most of your retirement savings with our collection of retirement resources and tools:
- Retirement Savings Enhancer: get the most from your savings plan.
- IRA Advisor: decide between a Roth or traditional IRA.
- Express IRA: instantly open a savings account to prepare for retirement.
- Inherited IRA Accounts: understand your tax implications.
- Family Tax Strategies: tools and advice to help you optimize your tax situation:
- Alternative Minimum Tax: estimate and reduce your alternative minimum tax exposure.
- Tuition Assistant: get the best tax advantage on tuition expenses.
- Claiming Your College Student: tax strategies for dependents.
- Child Care Credit Interview: get the most from new tax laws.
- Tax Law Assistants: don't miss out on the new tax breaks.
- Child Tax Credit: information on how the new laws apply to your family.
- Family License: TaxCut Premium lets you prepare returns for the whole family.
- Home Office Qualifier: helps you determine whether you qualify for a home office deduction.
- Kiplinger Tax and Financial Planning Library: Manage life's biggest financial opportunities with advice from the experts at Kiplinger's. Kiplinger's Tax and Financial Planning Library provides information to help you make the most of your money.
- Control debt, minimize your taxes, and stay ahead of inflation with Practical Guide to Your Money.
- Come out on top of the home-buying process with Buying & Selling a Home.
- Make your money work harder with Practical Guide to Investing.
- Plan for a bright future with Retire Worry-Free.
- And more!
- IRS Publications: Web links let you access the most up-to-date IRS publications.
- Customized Tax Interview: answer only the questions that pertain to your taxes.
- Error Check: Accuracy gives you confidence. Error Check alerts you to potential mistakes that could draw the attention of an auditor. New error messages help you increase accuracy and file your return faster.
- Life Event Advice: Makes life changes less stressful. Whether you've recently married, retired, purchased a new home, or changed your investments, TaxCut delivers advice to help you keep up with your changing tax situation.
- Electronic Refund Advance: Get your money faster. Within two business days of the IRS accepting your electronically-filed return, our Electronic Refund Advance (ERA) deposits the amount of your refund (up to $5,000) directly into your bank account--sometimes in just one day.***
- Seamless Imports: quickly and easily import last year's tax data from TaxCut or TurboTax.
- Multiple Payment Options:
- Simple Pay: Deduct your e-file fee directly from your refund. It's quick, easy, and convenient, so you pay nothing out of pocket.
- Easy Pay: pay your balance due to the IRS with the major credit card of your choice.
- E-file Your Extension: you can now e-file your extension through April 15, 2005, for an additional fee.
- Get Ready Screens: prepares you for each section of the tax interview so you have the correct tax documents and information ready.
- H&R Block Advantage: Personalized tax advice from the tax professionals at H&R Block to improve your tax situation. Here's what's included:
- H&R Block Advantage Report: when you finish your return, get a personalized tax report from H&R Block that will help you save money and improve your tax situation.
- H&R Block Interactive Video Library: helps you achieve your maximum tax advantage by understanding the implications of the changing tax laws.
- H&R Block Tax Payment Planner: estimate your 2004 taxes and adjust withholdings to maximize tax benefits.
- H&R Block Home Mortgage Advisor: calculate your savings from purchasing and refinancing your home and understand how your mortgage loan options affect your taxes.
- H&R Block IRA Advisor: explains differences between Roth and traditional IRAs and determines which account gives you the maximum tax benefits.
- H&R Block Express IRA: Save money on this year's return by opening an IRA instantly or contribute to an existing account. Whether a traditional or Roth IRA, H&R Block Express IRA lets you use part or all of your tax refund to open an account or add contributions electronically. (Eligibility restrictions and additional fees apply.)
- Entry Manager: Keeps you organized by creating an itemized list and flags entries as "tentative" to review later. Entry Manager keeps tabs on where your data originates and guides you to related forms.
- Topic Navigator: shows you where you are in the process of the tax interview and lets you navigate easily from one part of the return to another.
- Tax Law Assistants: help you understand which new tax laws affect your return and how to get the maximum tax break possible.
- Help Central: makes it easier than ever to find assistance as you complete your tax return.
- Auto Entry: Save time and ensure accuracy. Auto Entry lets you import your tax data directly from participating employers and financial institutions.
- Refund/Owe Meter: Watch the bottom line change as you go. Use the Refund/Owe Meter to monitor how your refund or amount due changes.
- Improved Interviews: helps you easily navigate through complex tax situations like depreciation, dependents, Schedule C, and more.
- Satisfaction Guarantee: If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund the purchase price within 60 days of purchase.
- 100-Percent Accuracy Guarantee: we guarantee the calculations within the program are correct or we pay penalties and interest.
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TaxCut Premium provides extra tools and advice to help you save money on your federal taxes. You'll get valuable tools for managing home ownership, investments, and retirement planning.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Recommended Only for Simple Tax Situations,
By William Perez "About.com Guide to Tax Planning" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Premium [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Quick and easy tax preparation, with just a few drawbacks for complex tax issues. For simple tax returns, I rate TaxCut very highly. If you have to depreciate any assets at all, don't bother with TaxCut unless you know depreciation inside and out.
I was very surprised by the amount of time it took me to prepare a tax return using TaxCut. In just 20 minutes, I prepared a simple tax return, from start to finish. Starting over with a new tax return, it took me only 30 minutes to prepare an especially complex tax return. TaxCut's clean interface and keeping questions short all helped speed things along. TaxCut Premium does a good job handling the data entry for the sale of business assets, as it prompts you to choose with section of the Internal Revenue Code applies to the sale of the property. TaxCut did not catch a typo I made when inputting my W2 (I transposed two numbers on my wages). This is something that software should notice and ask you to double check. The worst part of TaxCut Premium is how it handles depreciation. Depreciation is one of those things that you buy software for.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Where are the reviews for this year?,
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This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Premium [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Look at the reviews and you'll find that those who gave this product a poor rating have never used the most recent addition. I really don't care what someone may think about an old product because it has nothing to do with THIS product. One reviewer ever calls it "KTC"... sorry but they have not used the name Kiplinger's since the 2000 version.
Get a clue. THIS product does as good a job as any, is easy to follow, imports Quicken data just fine (if you have it set up correctly to begin with), has the features that mean the most and does it as a cost far less than TurboTax.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
cut out this software -- find something else!,
This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Premium [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I wrote a nice long review but as it happens my computer shut down before the review was submitted. However, I'm going to do it again here because I don't want you to waste your time like I wasted mine on this software this year, my first year doing my own taxes.
My main beefs -- - Rebate process was probably more annoying than if I had read the IRS detailed tax instructions. - DeductionPro is useless; didn't even install it since I just took the standard deduction they give you instead of itemizing. - Videos are annoying; you can't fast forward or rewind. I also felt like I was being talked down to or needlessly being sold on the software I had already purchased ("alternative minimum tax is way complicated, but don't worry, we'll help you out!") - Useless questions that could be automated away. For example, why do I need to tell the software what 1040 form I want to use? Isn't that the point of the software? - Lack of question explanation in the text. For example, how am I supposed to figure out if I have Hope or lifetime learning or deduction credit? If I wanted to look at detailed documentation or find an online reference, I wouldn't have bought the software. - Ads of the H&R Block tax advisor service and all the other extra junk they try to sell you. Ask yourself, what's their incentive for making the questions and question flow clear if their intention is to sell you on the extras if you're confused. And the straw that broke the camel's back and led me to another online service (free and better!) -- - Huge bug where it deducted my Roth IRA contribution. I didn't know much about the tax system but one of the things I did know is that Roth IRA contributions are not tax deductible. I considered filing an official complaint against the software, but am sick of dealing with it so this review will have to do. About the only thing that didn't make the software completely worthless was that I did my state tax return with it. The online service I used for federal didn't have the part-year resident form I needed for my state. Even then I made sure to double check the numbers it spewed out since I had lost trust in the software's accuracy. I had thought that the H&R Block name would've been an advantage in accuracy, etc. But really, I feel like the software's existence is to make people migrate toward their brick-and-mortar professionals. Also, it's no wonder the software has bugs if the IRS forms themselves were not yet finalized when the software was released (an online update of the software is required). Although, to be fair, the accuracy problems I entered both upped my refund; at the risk of getting audited! Bottom Line: If you're really lazy -- pay a tax professional or bribe a knowledgeable friend. If you're medium lazy -- go with an online service or the other popular software package If you're willing to spend time learning about taxes (for future benefit e.g. to optimize refunds, catch software mistakes) -- go directly to the IRS instructions and consider doing double checking and e-filing with an online service.
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