Turbotax User Forum on Internet?

Is there a Turbotax User Forum on the Internet? I have not been able to find one?

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charliec
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Hi, Charlie.

So far as I know, this is as good as it gets.

There are a few newsgroups with "taxes" in their names. I haven't been to misc.taxes.moderated in years, but it was always pretty good. Intuit might have a TTax forum at their website; I'll let you explore that possibility and report back to us.

RC

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Is there a Turbotax User Forum on the Internet? I have not been able to find one?

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R. C. White

I found the one below on their site, but it is not very user friendly!

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charliec

Hi, again, Charlie.

Today I bought TTax Basic ($29.99 + Sales Tax at Office Depot) for 2013 and installed it. One of the first screens offers a link to the TurboTax Community.

RC

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I found the one below on their site, but it is not very user friendly!

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R. C. White

What was the link? I just ordered TTax Premier 2013 and Quicken Deluxe 2014 from Amazon and should receive them in a week or so (free shipping :). But would like to take a quick look at the forum link!

Charlie

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charliec

Hi, Charlie.

Well, the "link" is just a button to click, from inside TurboTax itself; no URL shown. But, when I click the first message listed and then copy the URL from the Address Bar of the page I land on, I get:

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&tags=dialogwelcome&sid=NONE Maybe that will get you close enough to find the rest of the TurboTax Community. I'm not ready yet to go exploring there myself. I just wanted to get the new TTax installed and my 2012 data imported. In a few days I will input my mostly-estimated numbers for 2013 to see if I need to sell some stock or something before year-end.

RC

-- -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.) snipped-for-privacy@grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) (Using Quicken Deluxe 2014 R 3 and Windows Live Mail in Win8.1 x64)

What was the link? I just ordered TTax Premier 2013 and Quicken Deluxe 2014 from Amazon and should receive them in a week or so (free shipping :). But would like to take a quick look at the forum link!

Charlie

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R. C. White

Thanks for the reply.

Charlie

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charliec

That sounds like a great price, except that I think Basic doesn't come with a State tax module, and adding that on costs $36.99.

Am I right about both of those, or should I look into buying the same thing you did?

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Ken Blake

Hi, Ken.

Remember that Texas does not have a state income tax! ; Today I bought TTax Basic ($29.99 + Sales Tax at Office Depot) for 2013

That sounds like a great price, except that I think Basic doesn't come with a State tax module, and adding that on costs $36.99.

Am I right about both of those, or should I look into buying the same thing you did?

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R. C. White

Reply to
Ken Blake, MVP

Hi, Ken.

At Office Depot, I asked about TTax. A clerk pointed to where I easily found Quicken, but TTax was not there so I asked again for TTax Basic. This time a young fellow went to the storeroom and got it for me. I never saw the Deluxe or other versions or the prices. OD's Black Friday ad came today but neither TTax nor Q are listed.

RC

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R. C. White

"R. C. White" wrote in news:neSdnQ0dbJ5hbQrPnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@posted.grandecom:

A note to Ohio users:

The State of Ohio has a set of downloadable PDF's that will calculate your taxes AND file for you.

I found this a couple of years ago when I was looking for a way to file my state taxes for less than what Intuit charges, and came across these forms. I did cross check the Ohio forms with what TurboTax came up with and found no differences, so I can also get the Basic package and have confidence taht the two returns will be identical.

There may be other states which have a similar benefit.

John Carter

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John Carter

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windwatcher

Indeed. One of the states I file in offers free web filing using numbers from the Federal 1040, so I rarely buy the TTax state bundle unless it's an extra good deal.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Just a comment is that, where I am in good 'ole NY State, the State tax forms start with the 1040 ; one enters numbers from the Fed 1040 up to the adjusted gross income; then the fun begins with NY State Additions and Subtractions, along with their version of standard deductions. The point is that for NY, one can't just use the Fed 1040 numbers by itself.

Consider yourself lucky if you can do this for a state with just the fed #s. (Consider yourself especially lucky if you don't need to file state taxes at all!)

Reply to
Andrew

Hi, Andrew.

Oh, I DO! ; extra

Just a comment is that, where I am in good 'ole NY State, the State tax forms start with the 1040 ; one enters numbers from the Fed 1040 up to the adjusted gross income; then the fun begins with NY State Additions and Subtractions, along with their version of standard deductions. The point is that for NY, one can't just use the Fed 1040 numbers by itself.

Consider yourself lucky if you can do this for a state with just the fed #s. (Consider yourself especially lucky if you don't need to file state taxes at all!)

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R. C. White

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