2003 TaxCut Standard Federal Filing Edition From H&r Block

by H&R Block

Product Features

• Software for completing Federal tax return quickly and accurately
• Customized tax interview; helpful tax and financial advice for specific life events
• Automatically double-checks return for errors or omissions
• Get paid in as little as 2 business days with electronic refund-advance loan
• Easily import last year's data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• ASIN: B0000DIFAF
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 24, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,390 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

TaxCut Standard includes everything you need to complete your Federal return. Answer simple, easy-to-understand questions and the program does the rest. Standard comes complete with new features that make it easier to complete your return quickly and accurately, plus new convenient paperless payment options for taxes due and e-filing fees are also included.

• Improved! Tools for navigation and program help
• Improved! Error Check automatically reviews your return for common errors
• Updated! Tax Law Assistants help get the most from tax breaks
• Updated! H&R Block Advantage Report to improve your tax situation

Features:

Imports your tax and financial information from last year's TaxCut or TurboTax federal return, Microsoft Money, Quicken, and H&R Block DeductionPro.

New! Get Ready Screens: prepares you for each section of the tax interview so you have the correct tax documents and information ready.

New! H&R Block Plain Talk Tax Tips: save money with more than 25 new topics including Savers Credit, Bunching Deductions, Overlooked Deductions, and more.

Updated! H&R Block Advantage Report: when you finish your return, TaxCut generates a personalized tax report from H&R Block that will help you save money and improve your tax situation.

New! Topic Navigator: view where you are in the process of the tax interview and navigate easily from one part of the return to another.

Updated! Tax Law Assistants: understand which new tax laws affect your return and get the maximum tax break possible.

Improved! Help Central: makes it easier than ever to find assistance as you complete your tax return.

New! H&R Block Tax Payment Planner: estimate your 2004 taxes and adjust withholdings to maximize tax benefits.

Improved! Error Check: automatically reviews your return for common errors to help identify possible IRS audit flags.

Refund/Owe Meter: provides an up-to-the-minute status of your refund or amount due as you enter data.

New! Credit Card Payment: pay your balance due to the IRS with the major credit card of your choice.

H&R Block Home Mortgage Advisor: calculate savings from purchasing and refinancing your home and understand how your mortgage loan options affect your taxes.

Electronic Refund Advance: Get a loan for the amount of your refund from Imperial Capital Bank (up to $5,000) directly deposited into your bank account, usually within two business days of the IRS accepting your electronically filed return. (Must qualify. Additional fees apply.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meets my needs inexpensively, December 12, 2003

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Chris Garvin (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2003 TaxCut Standard Federal Filing Edition From H&r Block (CD-ROM)

What's not to like?
It's cheaper that TurboTax, and does the same thing. Imports from financial software, does an "interview-style" return, imports last year's info, the usual stuff. Also allows e-file (you pay extra) and will support EFT to/from the IRS-- if you owe them money, you can have it sent on 4/15/04 and not pay any sooner than you need to.
My return is complex, but it handled it well. Just as good as the competitor, and about five bucks less. Also a great rebate offer w/ MSFT Money; basically get Money '04 for free. I'm sold, I'm satisifed, and I'll be back next year.
Four starts since it's just bare bones, but at this price, what do you want? I say don't bother paying for the extra movies and advisor stuff.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works Just Fine for Us Simple Folk, January 22, 2004

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Slarty Bartfast "Climbing Nerd" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2003 TaxCut Standard Federal Filing Edition From H&r Block (CD-ROM)

OK, I'm a head of a household, with kids, wife doesn't have a paying job, and we own a home. I do the 401K thing, but not anything fancy for stocks, etc. Up until last year, I used Turbotax exclusively, but was lucky enough to check the reviews before buying, and noticed the cdilla problem. So I tried tax cut instead. Totally simple, amazingly easy, brought in everything that I needed from turbotax quick as a wink. Same basic moves as turbotax. Asks you all the same questions without all the long movies. (I did find the movies helpful the first few years, though). I remember liking the printouts better for turbotax, but that's about it.

If you have basic needs, and you have an idea how to do your taxes anyway, this will work just fine. I'm going to buy turbotax this year since my quicken needs updating and they have a freebie, but other than that, for a simple clod like moiself, they're pretty much the same. Same for the state version.

I'd give it 5 stars if it came with a cold beer....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Job TaxCut!, February 9, 2004

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"vernindallas" (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2003 TaxCut Standard Federal Filing Edition From H&r Block (CD-ROM)

I have used TurboTax forever but switched to TaxCut this year because I lost faith in TurboTax after last year (when they installed spyware on my PC). TaxCut looks and works a lot like TurboTax and correctly picked up all my TurboTax info from least year's return. The nicest thing about TaxCut was that they didn't have an advertisement on every screen (TurboTax likes to put ads on their pages). When you get a product for free, you expect ads. When you pay for a program, you don't expect to have to put up with all that annoying advertising. Great work TaxCut -- you've learned from TurboTax's errors. Keep up the good work and you have me as a lifetime customer!