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TaxCut Standard provides great features at a great value with everything you need to complete your Federal return quickly and accurately. Just answer simple questions and the program does the rest.
Features:
- Customized Tax Interview: answer questions that pertain to your specific tax situation.
- Error Check: automatically double-checks your return for errors or omissions.
- Life Events Advice: helpful tax and financial advice for handling topics such as marriage, new home purchase, retiring, and more.
- Electronic Refund Advance Loan: get your money in as little as two business days.
- Seamless Imports: quickly and easily import last year's tax and financial data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and H&R Block DeductionPro.
- Multiple Tax Payment Options: easy ways to pay your taxes owed.
- Customized Tax Interview: answer questions that pertain to your specific tax situation.
- 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 Events 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 Loan: Get money faster. Within two business days of the IRS accepting your electronically-filed return, Electronic Refund Advance (ERA) deposits money equal to the amount of your refund (up to $5,000 - less fees) directly into your bank account.*
- Seamless Imports: quickly and easily import last year's tax and financial data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and H&R Block DeductionPro.
- Multiple Tax 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 (additional fee applies).
- Easy Pay: pay your balance due to the IRS with the major credit card of your choice (additional fee applies).
- E-file: File faster, electronically. The most accurate tax filing method, e-file ensures you get your refund up to three times faster than with paper filing. E-file allows you to file up to five returns, and it is the only way to get online confirmation the IRS has accepted your return.
- 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 Report: Personalized tax advice from the tax professionals at H&R Block to improve your tax situation. Here's what's included:
- H&R Block Plain Talk Tax Tips: save money with more than 25 new topics including Savers Credit, Bunching Deductions, Overlooked Deductions, and more.
- 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 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, and more.
- Satisfaction Guarantee: if you are not completely satisfied, notify us within 60 days of purchase and we'll refund the purchase price .
- 100-Percent Accuracy Guarantee: we guarantee the calculations within the program are correct or we pay penalties and interest.
Product Description
TaxCut Standard provides great features at a great value with everything you need to complete your Federal return quickly and accurately. Just answer simple questions and the program does the rest.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's cheap and it works just great!,
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This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
For the third year in a row (after I quit Quicken/TurboTax because of the C-Dilla debacle) I've used Taxcut. I don't think much has changed, but I don't care, since it meets my needs inexpensively.
It does the familiar Q&A, walking you through your return, and allows you to skip around in case you're waiting for info to file your final return. I have a pretty complex return...a 10-page Schedule D with many short option sales, and a K-1 from a Canadian oil trust (with foreign taxes and a funky tax shelter reporting form). Taxcut handled the whole shebang last year without a problem (although going through the trades was tedious, even after importing them from MSFT Money). Moreover, I got an amended K-1 on March 30 (thanks a lot!!) and had to file a 1040X amended return...Taxcut handled that with no problems either. This year I did a pro forma return at the end of December to check the consequences of tax-lot selling...Taxcut ate it right up without a hitch, showing me how I could trim over $10K off this year's bill by selling some stock that tanked. Without doing the pro forma, I'd be making many guesses and assumptions on Excel. I gave it 5 stars because it's a great value for the money. If you expect this to perform as well as the Premium editions, with all their bells and whistles and free extras, you'll be disappointed. This is a bare-bones product...you get what you pay for. It is *WELL* worth the bargain price, and a must-buy over its more expensive competitor. I'll be buying the '05 package this December!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
eh, it's alright,
By Tax Filer (Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
This is my third year with taxcut. It works. I avoid Turbotax because of their reported spyware problesm (at least in the past).
Taxcut is a simple program and obviously H&R Block doesn't spend much on programmers. In fact I can't believe they have more than one part-time person on the front-end of it. It does not look professionally done, more like a beta version. Every year I've used it the text has overlaped entry boxes. The information is displayed in an annoyingly small box with a scroll bar. They should just use the whole screen so I don't have to scroll. You could easily forget to scroll and miss boxes you need to fill in. It gets 1.5 stars for appearance and use. That said, a fairly simple return takes about an hour and only costs $9.99 (Walmart's got you beat Amazon). It's a tax code and at the end of the day I don't need anything pretty. It does try to sell me more H&R services, but I guess I've grown used to that. Still, it would all go faster without that in the way. And the navigation just isn't great; in fact it might be poor. And it put two icons on my desktop that I had to delete. But it's this or TurboTax. An aside: For the life of me I can't figure out why I need to buy tax software. The government could save money, trees, errors and time if they'd distribute a free software package. If they write the rules the least they could do is let me download a free program to interpret them.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
OK BUT UPDATE PROBLEMS,
This review is from: TaxCut 2004 Standard [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
I have used Tax Cut for several years and reasonably satisfied. But the 2004 edition has an error in the auto update software that causes "UNEXPECTED ERROR" flag when trying to download the update. The TaxCut web site acknowledges the error and lists cause as UNKNOWN. Wasted time disabling firewall, anti-virus, etc. with no resolution. The only solution is to download a full update from their web site which is 42 mb and takes 3 hours with a 56K modem. Imagine this when buying software to speed your tax preparation. A check of the internet shows others having this problem also. Apparently they did not do much quality testing of this product.
Otherwise the software is similar to previous years.
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