TurboTax Deluxe No State 2005 Win/Mac [Old Version]

by Intuit

Product Features

• Make changes more easily - navigate to any point in your return with a single click, then instantly return to where you left off
• Find overlooked deductions - Get extra help for education, medical, home deductions, credits and more
• Know exactly with items could flag an audit - and how to avoid them
• Save time with e-File -- Your refund can be deposited directly into your account
• Get access to official IRS publications -- authoritative information straight from the source

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BNJJA8
• Item model number: 297485
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,092 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

TurboTax Deluxe guides you with extra help for deductions. Finds hidden deductions—such as education and medical expenses. Gives you easy-to-understand deduction advice and tips from official IRS publications and expert videos. Now includes ItsDeductible software to help you accurately value donated items (for a bigger deduction!). Double-checks your return for errors, and even flags potential audit risks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, February 8, 2006

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R. Stoy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TurboTax Deluxe No State 2005 Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I used TurboTax for more than 6 years, but this is the last time. I could not import last year's return and could get no assistance to expain why last years information could not be transferred. Only my name transferred, but nothing else. Last year everying went great--what happenned? This is worse than an old Turbo Tax basic that I used several years ago. The Quicken import feature was a disaster. My dependents, and all other information had to be rekeyed. This combined with no rebate, difficulty getting the state return piece and updates that were not current--never again.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Way too much money to efile!!!, February 14, 2006

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John Ubele II - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TurboTax Deluxe No State 2005 Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Buyer Beware!!!

Well it looks like Turbo Tax got greedy this year. Filing my taxes previously using efile cost nothing ($14.95 with a $14.95 rebate) but all that has changed. Now Turbo Tax wants $14.95 to efile (no rebate mentioned) and in addition a "processing fee" of $29.95. So that's an effective price increase of $45 this year to do my taxes. Wow.

I'll be printing out my taxes an snail mailing them in. A huge step backwards since I've efiled for the past five years. I've heard some good things about Tax Cut and will be trying it out next year. Bye bye Turbo Tax...

The program itself is pretty reliable although has become increasingly bloated with spam (upgrades and offers to get gift cards etc.) from previous years. The exorbitant fees to efile is a deal killer for me and I assume most others. Either go with Tax Cut or take the money and go to a real tax professional - you'll be better off!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I love it -- I hate it., April 17, 2006

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R. Dickerman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TurboTax Deluxe No State 2005 Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

What I love about it. It carries information forward from prior-year returns. It imports Schedule B and Schedule D information. It produces legible documents, something I could never do on my own.

What I hate about it. There are a lot of basically harmless annoyances (e.g. asking for information multiple times; persistently asking whether you `want any fries with that'; telling me that I'm not eligible to e-file because of multiple 8283s (which is fine), but then telling me on final review that there's an error because I haven't entered credit card data to cover an electronic filing charge of $0.00). TurboTax forgets where it's been after you apply updates; your data are still there, but it can give you a moment of panic because it looks like it lost your data. But here's something that can cost you money. ItsDeductible is poorly integrated with TurboTax. Review carefully what gets transferred from ID. One of my cash contributions didn't transfer - no discernible reason. Also, ID recognized some gifts of appreciated stock to be fully deductible, but after transfer to TT they showed up as ordinary income contributions. Trusting TT would have cost me over $3,200. I had to waste time digging through instructions to understand and correct what TT did wrong.