TaxCut Platinum Home & Business 2002S

by H&R Block

Product Features

• This powerful tax tool features the applications & advice you need for timely completion of all your tax forms
• Get expert advice from Kiplinger and H&R Block for controlling your debt, buying a home, investing and planning for your retirement
• Built-in business assistant gives you tips on depreciation, expense deductions, and other business considerations
• It also features complete forms for your convenience -- just fill them in & print them out
• Includes the following forms - 1040, 1120S, 1065, 1041, 990, 940 and 941

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007E7IH
• Item model number: 1116600-02
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 3, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,457 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

TaxCut Platinum Home & Business 2002 features the new TaxCut Platinum product for your personal taxes. It offers all of your favorite features from TaxCut Deluxe, plus it's packed with new assistants for capital gains, stock options, and depreciation, to name a few. TaxCut Business 2002 contains all the forms you need, plus a new W-2/1099 reporter and preparer function. The interview-style process is enhanced, and more than 45 new tax tips are in the FAQ section, all to make your business taxes easier than ever.

H&R Block financial planners assist you in determining if your investments support your financial goals and if your asset allocation matches your risk tolerance. You can also create what-if scenarios for future savings. Nine-year tax preview shows you all the ways that the tax legislation of 2001 will affect you now and in the future. Home Office Assistant walks you through a series of questions to see if your home office qualifies for tax purposes. Retirement Savings Enhancer provides ways to increase your tax and retirement savings to ensure you get the most out of your 401(k).

Rental Property Assistant helps you maximize your rental property tax savings by providing tax tips and reminding you of overlooked individual rental property expenses. Capital Gains Assistant, powered by GainsKeeper, helps you maximize your tax benefits and minimize your tax liabilities. The new Stock Options Advisor offers a central location to find answers to all your stock options questions, including the consequences of your transactions. Get help and advice regarding all types of options--such as incentive, nonqualified, and even employee stock purchases. Business Expense Assistant helps sole proprietors enter, track, and report business expenses to maximize deductions. It also provides additional tax tips and answers to frequently asked questions.

TaxCut for Business 2002 features all the forms you need, including form 1040 for sole proprietorships, form 1120 for corporations, form 1120S for S-corporations, form 1065 for partnerships, form 941 for payroll returns, form 1041 for fiduciary returns, and form 990 for nonprofit organizations. In addition, the new W-2/1099 reporter and preparer saves you time and money by printing out W-2s and 1099-MISCs for employees and contractors, and the associated IRS reports.

Product Description

The tax planning application that features twice the convenience for tax-time!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars personal taxes excellent .....business hard to use, January 12, 2003

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shopaholic - See all my reviews

This review is from: TaxCut Platinum Home & Business 2002S (CD-ROM)

I used this product last year and was "very" happy with my personal tax return process. I was not as happy with it for my small business. It was not user friendly on any of the corporate issues! I had to go to an accountant to figure out my s corporation taxes. I "would" buy it again for personal taxes, but unless they have improved the product, I amm so so about using it for my business.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much Better Than Expected, May 10, 2003

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maxwellryan "maxwellryan" (Toledo, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TaxCut Platinum Home & Business 2002S (CD-ROM)

I decided to take a chance on this product after closing another intrusive pop-up sales window in Intuit's QuickBooks program and fearing the problems I heard about on this year's edition of TurboTax. I am so glad I did! The home side was easy, updating was no problem and it discovered that my accountant had placed me in the wrong school district (a quick call to a school official confirmed this). I have a VERY small business with two employees and the program was fine for that, however I can see where some people would question the 'robustness' of the product for larger businesses. The Business side also discovered two errors my accountant made on last year's return (glad I dumped the accountant). I am more than satisfied.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Business module very weak, March 16, 2003

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Steve H. (Charlotte NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TaxCut Platinum Home & Business 2002S (CD-ROM)

I've been extremely pleased with the personal TaxCut for several years, moving over when TurboTax got too bloated and Intuit too cocky. However I've stayed with Business TurboTax because of the import capability from QuickBooks.

QuickBooks, now also bloated and chock full of full of Intuit product promotions, has infuriated me with Intuit products in general. After reading about their fiasco with product reg protection in the personal TurbopTax, I decided to make the jump this year, import convenience be damned.

TaxCut Platinum made sense since I'm using their personal module and I frankly expected the same level of polish on the business version. However running the 1120 module reminded me of the old DOS tax programs I used way back in the late 1980s. It really is sloppy and non-intuitive. As the others mentioned, I'm shocked that re-opening a company doesn't take you to an auto bookmark, but instead to the first interview page. And forms management is non-existent.

It's nice to have a live Q&A window on each data entry sequence, but it's tiny and non-scalable. And maybe it's a registry bind with my XP Pro system, but I can't resize or minimize the program window - it's full screen or nothing.

But it did prepare the return, and did so at half the price of Intuit's offering. Still, Block really needs to go over this thing though, because it's no where near the quality of their personal module.