TurboTax Home & Business Federal + e-File + State 2010 [Download] [OLD VERSION]

by Intuit

Product Features

• Step-by-step guidance through your self-employment and personal income taxes
• Expanded interview walks you through entering business income and expenses to help you maximize business and personal deductions
• Creates W-2 and 1099-MISC forms for your employees and contractors (Windows Only)
• Customized for select industries to help spot commonly overlooked deductions
• Includes one free state preparation and 5 free Federal e-Files?receive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as fast as 8 days. State e-File available in certain states for an additional fee.

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B00440D8PQ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #40 in Software > Tax Preparation
  • #83 in Software > Personal Finance

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

TurboTax Home & Business was designed to help you take full advantage of your personal and business deductions so you get the biggest tax refund possible, double-checking for accuracy and identifying missing deductions and credits. Includes free Federal E-File.

Everything you need to easily do your personal and business taxes.

Guides you Step by Step through Self-Employment Income, Deductions, and Credits for your Biggest Tax Refund

Customizes questions based on your business profile (sole-proprietor, consultant, 1099 contractor, and single-owner LLC) and gives you step-by-step guidance for entering income and expenses.

Helps Find Small-Business Tax Deductions

Shows you which expenses you can deduct for your vehicle, supplies, utilities, home office expenses, and more, so you get every business deduction you deserve.

Identifies Industry-Specific Deductions

Walks you through tax write-offs by industry to help you spot commonly overlooked deductions.

Gets You the Biggest Vehicle Deduction

Shows you whether you'll get a bigger deduction using actual expenses or the standard mileage rate. Provides extra help for splitting vehicle expenses between business and personal use.

Makes Entering Income Easier

Shows all business income types on a single page so you know you've covered all sources of business income.

Creates W-2 and 1099 Forms

Helps you prepare unlimited forms for employees and contractors. Does all calculations and prints on plain paper. No special forms needed. Mac users must have Internet access to create W-2 and 1099 forms.

Simplifies Asset Depreciation

Helps you determine which depreciation method will get you the biggest deduction, then guides you through calculating and reporting depreciation.

Streamlines Expense Entry

Walks you through all expense categories and provides additional tax deduction suggestions along the way so you can maximize your savings.

Offers Extra Guidance for New Businesses

Shows the startup deductions new businesses can take.

Also includes everything in Premier:

Helps You Get the Most from Your Investments

Imports Your Investment Info

Saves time by automatically importing your investment info directly from your financial institution.

Helps You Accurately Report Investment Sales

Walks you through reporting sales of stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Automatically calculates capital gains/losses and keeps track of those that carry over to future tax returns.

Determines Your Cost Basis

Finds your accurate purchase price for stock sales, in three easy steps.

Helps with Employee Stock Plans

Guides you through reporting sales and automatically determines your correct basis for selling shares purchased at different times or different prices.

401(k) Maximizer

Shows you how to increase your 401(k) contribution without decreasing your take-home pay.

Helps You Find Every Rental Deduction

Finds over 20 deductions for landlords, from travel to advertising to repairs to insurance.

Shows Your Best Rental Depreciation Method

Simplifies reporting rental property depreciation and shows which depreciation method will get you the biggest tax deduction.

Maximizes Refinancing Deductions

Guides you through deducting points, appraisal fees, recording costs, and more so you don't miss a single chance to save.

Helps with New Rental Properties

Shows you step by step how to set up new rental properties.

Why TurboTax Home & Business is the easiest choice for you...

TurboTax Home & Business was designed to help you take full advantage of your personal and business deductions so you get the biggest tax refund possible.

Choose TurboTax Home & Business if any of the following apply to you:

• You are a sole proprietor, consultant, 1099 contractor, or single-owner LLC
• You receive income from a side job or self-employment
• You prepare W-2 and 1099-MISC forms for employees or contractors
• You file your personal and business taxes together

If you own an S Corp, partnership, C Corp, or multiple-owner LLC, choose TurboTax Business.

Why make the switch?

TurboTax is easy and it could save you money.

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Asks you questions and fills in the right tax forms
Gets you every deduction and credit you deserve
Tips and advice tailored to your unique tax situation
Support in case of an audit (fees may apply)
Handles tax impact of changes in your life
Years of expertise to help answer your questions
Up-to-date with all the latest tax laws
Federal efile included at no extra charge
Prepare and file your taxes anytime, 24/7
Do your taxes yourself, without leaving home

Finds All Tax Deductions and Credits You Deserve to Get Your Biggest Refund

Start your return and efile with Turbotax today. Intuit will submit your return when the IRS starts accepting them on January 14, 2011. The IRS will email you a confirmation within 48 hours.

Product Description

If you are a sole proprietor, consultant, contractor or single-owner LLC, TurboTax Hone and Business is the right choice for bug tax savings. Includes one free state preparation and 5 free Federal e-Files—receive IRS confirmation and get your refund in as fast as 8 days. State e-File available in certain states for an additional fee.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars cannot install the downloadable version, December 29, 2010

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foxbat - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + e-File + State 2010 [Download] [OLD VERSION] (Software Download)

I ordered the downloadable version from Amazon.com. I have used turbo tax for several years. This is the first time I ordered a downloadable version. However, I cannot install this file because it always give errors on .NET framwork. I googled online. This has been a problem for turbotax for some time. It is not easy to fix it. Being a downloadable version, it probably has tougher requirement on identifying user authenticity. I never had this problem with the CD version.

I called turbotax customer service and spent 30 minutes speaking slowly with a lady in India. Finally, she is going to mail me a CD version for free.

I should have spent the extra 2 bucks and bought the CD version at the beginning.

Service from amazon.com has always been very good.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Turbotax 2010 - getting pretty good, December 6, 2010

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WPB Consulting (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + e-File + State 2010 [Download] [OLD VERSION] (Software Download)

I have been a Turbotax user for quite a while, and have definitely seen a progression in quality and features of the Turbotax product. I remember last year, there were some installation issues for some. Turbotax 2010 downloaded and installed on my Windows 7 64-bit quickly and without issue. After executing the program, it immediately downloaded some updates and I was ready to get to work.

As usual, the State software is included free. This year, the integration with the State software seems even better. While the State download wasn't available yet, it gave me options for notification and what the status of availability was.

There doesn't seem to be many new features over last year, in fact, as far as I can tell, they don't come right out and say what is new over last year. However, the ones that are there are very nice:

* The Live Community is integrated even more into the software and is a handy feature. It is context sensitive, so the most popular questions for each section appear when you enter that section.

* There is also a Flags section which allows you to easily mark sections to work on later, which has proven valuable when trying to complete forms for which you only have preliminary data.

* Switching between Forms and Interview seems to be smoother as well, and there seems to be several ways to navigate to exactly the data you want to work on.

* It seems to be all about options, for many areas, the software offers you multiple ways of calculating the data so that you get the best possible return.

* Finally, ItsDeductible is still integrated and is a great tool.

Tax software has a unique problem; the features are to provide the smoothest and fastest tax preparation as possible. So, the better they make the product, the less time I need to work with it.

I plan to update this review as I complete my personal/business returns.


** UPDATE 12/28/2010 **

2010 figures are summarized side by side with (imported) 2009 figures, which is very helpful in identifying data that you might still need to enter.

I found that the set of guided questions about entering home office information misleading. Once a home office is added, you must click the Edit button to continue entering more information or else your entry will be incomplete, even though there is really no easy way to tell. That button should be a Start/Update button as found in other sections.

Yes, it is still preliminary, but on the Final Review section it does indeed provide a list of forms that haven't been finalized yet, and an expected due date for each. So you do have some idea of what calculations may change.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As advertised! ... but, there is a download glitch with an easy fix., February 26, 2011

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robert johnston (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + e-File + State 2010 [Download] [OLD VERSION] (Software Download)

Great price, great product, great service ... but, I've been using Turbotax for a hundred years

Amazon had far and away the best price today. This is the first year that I've seen Turbo-tax widely discounted. I use Turbotax Biz to 'what-if' front run my CPA. Turbotax S-corp biz tax prep is frankly as good as the CPA.


There is a download issue that Amazon could easily fix to satisfy the 1-star reviewers. The first 'download' button sends you off into cyberspace and froze up my browser. The freeze had the characteristic of a download management system malfunction. My second try was successful BUT I used a 2 step process: First, follow the links to Amazon's download management software and download the Amazon engine first. Second, download Turbotax. After the Amazon downloader was installed, Turbotax self-loaded in 2 minutes.