I'm thinking about doing my own taxes this year. Mainlybecause the person that was preparing them before isn'tbeing very helpful with the examination of my 2004 return. 1) Is TurboTax OK? They have a Basic for $40 and a Deluxe for $55. Anyone know the difference?2) Should I go to H&R Block, Jackson-Hewitt, etc?3) Or should I just read IRS pub. 17 and try it on my own?I'd also be peparing my wife's return also. Thank you foryour help!

Deluxe includes the state program. If your state has incometax return requirement, I'd say Deluxe is worth it. Otherwise, basic. I would avoid them like the plague. They're trained monkeysthat punch numbers into a program very similar to turbotax. Turbotax makes things quite easy. I've used it for severalyears. Had a paid preparer one year when I had a lot ofinteresting sales of stocks that split, spunoff and whatall. TT is a pleasure to use, actually. --Todd H.

Not prohibited, just discouraged. I am sure our esteemedModerator will let us know if the discussion gets out ofhand. Not sure of other groups but often" often has TurboTaxdiscussions this time of year since Quicken is a relatedproduct. I don't know about other products.---Ernie-

The best place for questions about TurboTax is the TurboTaxUser Forums at It is veryactive. Bob Sandler

Question on doing my own taxes this year ?

Feb 01, 2007 24 Replies

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kade714 19 years ago

Sorry, I didn't know we weren't supposed to talk about tax programs here. I will try searching around elsewhere.

Thanks everyone!

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W. Baker 19 years ago

Ths is my first year with a Mac. I have used turbotax before with the usual frustrations about it taking so long to go through all those questions. Is the Mac a separate version or do you use the same disk as for the PC? Wendy Baker

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Ernie Klein 19 years ago

Not prohibited, just discouraged. I am sure our esteemed Moderator will let us know if the discussion gets out of hand.

Not sure of other groups but often alt.comp.software.financial.quicken" often has TurboTax discussions this time of year since Quicken is a related product. I don't know about other products.

-Ernie-

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Bob Sandler 19 years ago

The Mac and PC versions come on the same CD.

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Bob Sandler 19 years ago

The best place for questions about TurboTax is the TurboTax User Forums at

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It is veryactive. Bob Sandler

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