Customer Reviews

TaxCut 2008 Home & Business (Old Version) [DOWNLOAD]

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I've been using TaxCut for almost 10 years, this year the Business program can't even print. From a web search this is a known issue but H&R block hasn't done a darn thing. There is also no way to get support - the phone # and web pages all direct you to support for their paid preperation services, not the software. Spend your money else where. This fine program has been ruined since H&R Block bought it from Kiplinger.

I am using Windows XP Professional. The software worked good. I am able to save it as PDF very easily and print. I don't understand how some reviewers have complained that they cannot save in PDF. It is better to save as PDF and then print instead of directly printing because with PDF you can review your final output on the screen.

I know what I am filing and the numbers I am going to enter, hence it may have been easy to use the software. Also I am a technical person. But still, the program was quite robust.

Overall, I am happy with it. This is the first time I am using it.

Home part of this bundle is OK. But business is just a joke, there's no real guidance at all for s-corp, they just ask you to fill IRS forms yourself! But that's not it: after I filled my forms myself the damn thing cannot even print, save to pdf did not work either.

I have been using TaxCut over 10 years. I have always bought the Home & Business version (one year I even had to buy two separate pieces of software as they have unbundled it) and have never been satisfied with the business program. Its interview process is non existent and the help is useless or non existent as well. I would expect to have at least the ability to read the text contained in the IRS publication, when trying to get information on a given field. HA! Good luck with that.
Last year I had a hell of a time finding some of the schedules that the interview seemed to miss, but I had to fill out. It gets really fun if you fill out the return and then want to make changes as you've discoved that you've missed something. Good luck trying to get to a given form/schedule in the interview mode.
This year I am not even going to give them a shot. I would say that after over a decade, one can conclude that this software will always suck.
It's really too bad because the Individual portion has always been pretty good.

In reality when it comes to the business taxes ,it is easier to just download the forms from www.irs.gov and fill them out manually.

I have used Taxcut for years. Overall as tax software goes, I have 0 complaints. Just technical ones.

Works fine up to the point of downloading the state, it then blew up on 64 bit. I installed it on my 32 bit version of Vista and it worked fine. There was zero technical support found for this.

I'd say skip it if all you have is 64 bit.

We purchased this product this year trying to save a few bucks (as compared to TurboTax). However, I would gladly spend the extra and get TurboTax back! This program is horrible! If I didn't know my way around a paper return we would have paid over TWICE the taxes that we should have. This is supposed to be a business program but it didn't even take me to the Schedules C and SE...I had to search for them so that I could enter my business expenses. Do not buy this, you will be sorry you did...and pay Uncle Sam way too much!

Don't buy this download if you will need to print 1099-Misc for your contractors. The software is way complicated and the customer service sucks. I was on chat with the customer service for 40 minutes and in the end they said they didn't know how to solve my issue (I needed help with printing 1099-Misc forms).
Wish me luck getting my money back.

TaxCut is very easy to use and imports from all the major banking software. I highly recommend it.