TurboTax Federal + State Deluxe Deduction Maximizer 2006 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]
![TurboTax Federal + State Deluxe Deduction Maximizer 2006 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]](/Images/B000JD3AIW/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend TurboTax lives up to its name by finding and maximizing your deductions. It guides you step-by-step through mortgage interest, charitable contributions, education, medical expenses, and more so you won't miss any potential deductions. This program also shows you how to qualify for deductions, looks for deduction opportunities, and tracks how much you've saved in deductions and credits. Deluxe Deduction Maximizer includes ItsDeductible software to help you accurately value… Product details and pricing info |
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291 Customer Reviews Posted
- Turbo Tax 2006
- Is this easy to use or what? I was able to get my taxes done in less than an hour. I will never pay the price for a tax preparer again.
- 2007-10-13, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Turbo Tax 2006
- Came in unopened box and brand new... was mailed out promptly... will recommend this seller as a good merchant
- 2007-10-01, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- TurboTax vsTaxAct
- I do my taxes by going through my income and deduction items and putting them into my tax return, i.e. I am using the "forms method". I have no comment about the relative merits of the "interview method" of TurboTax and TaxAct. My income consists of Social Security, pensions, dividends, interest, a real estate partnership in two states other than NY where I live, commodity trades and tax refunds. For 2006 I used both TurboTax and TaxAct since I wanted to be sure that TaxAct, which costs less than half of what TurboTax costs, will in the future be just as good for my purposes.
I found the much cheaper TaxAct more convenient to use, because it is somewhat easier to find and open forms in TaxAct than in TurboTax. TaxAct does have the annoying property that even on a screen with plenty of room to spare, certain words of the forms don't appear. For instance, NY IT-201 line 72 is: "Total New York State Tax withheld..." and line 73 is "Total New York City tax withheld..." On the TaxAct screen both lines become "Total NY Tax withheld...". I should say, if you print out the page the missing words reappear, and in any case the two items are imported by the program from another form, but even so, this is a disturbing defect.
Neither TurboTax MA nor TaxAct MA has schedule 3K-1 which I needed for the real estate partnership, and I filled in the MA tax forms by hand.
Both TaxAct and TurboTax can convert your tax return, either with or without all the worksheets and 1099 forms, into a .pdf document. The document can be very long, and TurboTax produces a table of contents which makes it easy to find what one wants.
I noticed one difference between the tax computations. TurboTax just deducted from my NY tax what I paid to MA and RI, where I am nonresident. TaxAct allowed me to deduct only amounts it computed using a complicated formula one is supposed to use. I think it computes roughly the smaller of the taxes I paid to the other states and what the NY tax would have been on the amounts earned in those states.
One disadvantage of TaxAct for me was that it does not offer a RI state tax program.
I asked for help from TaxAct by e-mail twice, well after April 15th. On both occasions they replied within hours and the replies answered my questions.
Next year I will use only TaxAct. - 2007-09-12, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Have used this ptroduct for years!
- I have used TurboTax tax preparation software for six years. While I no longer have to use the State tax part of the software, I always found it to be reliable and accurate for whatever state I needed. The Federal portion of the software is very complete and provides a thorough walk-through of even the most complex forms. We use it for our small LLC corporation as well. I would not think of changing to another software provider as long as TurboTax fulfills my tax preparation needs as well as it does now.
- 2007-08-14, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- TurboTax
- Great product and very easy to use. The price was a little high and I could have bought it cheaper in a store. I will buy it again.
- 2007-07-20, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
