H&R Block Taxcut 2006 Premium Federal + State Win/Mac
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend H&R Block TaxCut Premium Federal+State 2006 has everything you need in one comprehensive program for any tax situation. From 1040EZ to Schedule C, you'll get guidance through step-by-step interviews. They'll be customized to your unique needs, so you can make the most of money-saving deductions. Find every feature and form from last year's Deluxe and Premium in just one program - and let TaxCut seamlessly import your data from… Product details and pricing info |
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72 Customer Reviews Posted
- First year this program has let me down
- I switched to Tax Cut years ago after Turbotax (in 2003) implemented their idiotic validation scheme. I figured I was doing my part to punish Intuit / Turbotax. And for all those years I've been happy with Tax Cut.
Not this year. I found some major bugs which cost me a lot of time. I had my return done, but the numbers were seriously out of whack -- I know I didn't have that much income! Going back through the interview process didn't turn up the source of the added money. Only by checking the actual "Forms" did I find that several copies of 1099-Misc forms were hidden from the interview process, and by adding the same data in non-hidden copies, I was double entering the data. There was no easy way to recover. I eventually had to wipe the installation and start all over.
A call to tech support did absolutely no good. The person on the other end didn't seem to understand the problem with having "hidden" copies of forms going into the calculations. If those are hidden, what else is it doing wrong?
I'm not quite sure how do deal with this next year. Go back to Turbotax? Hope Tax Cut fixes its problems? Or go to a human tax preparer?
Whatver my choice, I'm not looking forward to it. - 2007-04-18, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Worth every cent, if it's free
- I bought Taxcut this year because it was inexpensive and included business tax forms for my partnership. For the money I guess I'm satisfied with the partnership results, but that's where it ends.
Taxcut for Federal taxes is not integrated with Taxcut for business... ok so what do you want for cheap. But, it also isn't well integrated with the Massachusetts state tax version, leaving me to go figure how to deal with what it calls "special" situations (unreimbursed partner expenses and interest from out of state banks, for example). Overriding form data is painful and the program complains that if I override calculated data I can not e-file (not that I would trust it to e-file my taxes). Form navigation is hopeless. I can only imagine what someone who isn't experienced with tax preparation could accomplish with this mess.
I filed for an extension; now I'm probably going to buy Turbotax to do the actual federal and state returns.
With a deep discount, I would probably purchase Taxcut again for the partnership taxes, because it is slightly easier to use than the Excel spreadsheets I'd been using (but only because I don't have to copy the numbers from the spreadsheets into the forms).
Honestly, you would think there would be some tax software that is better than the non-functional Taxcut without the overblown, fatty and expensive too-many-talking-heads Turbotax alternative! - 2007-04-17, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Throw it away, it's bad news
- Have just spent 2.5 hours struggling with TC for Mac. Wrong info, bad interviews, uneditable forms, credits missing. (No combo of keys appears to pull up the override feature.) Dangerous. Throw it away, do your taxes by hand or find an accountant.
- 2007-04-16, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Beware!
- I tried to use this program to file a very simple return, and it calculated that I owed the state $550 for underpayment, as well as a $230 penalty for late payment.
I tried working through the program several times to find the error. I found that the program was automatically checking boxes that I hadn't checked! I have no idea if that was the cause of the underpayment problem, which I was not able to resolve.
In frustration, I went to [...] and filed my return easily within an hour, with a $140 return from the state rather than a $780 penalty! - 2007-04-15, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Beware and double check your results!!! - This product could cost you much more than $25!!!
- This program sucks. I used it last year and thought that it was unwieldy and really confusing (i.e. unlike TurboTax and other programs, there's very little transparency in the system). Then I bought it again this year because the store that I went to was out of Turbotax, and I needed to get my taxes done quickly. This year was even worse than last year - not only was it still unwieldy and irritating, but it gave me figures that simply did not make sense. The results for the federal return were OK, but it gave me figures that would have cost me over $2,000 in taxes that I did NOT owe on my state return. I ended up going online to double check my results using a cheap ($10) online service recommended by the NY state tax website. Within 45 minutes, I cleared the online source, and got results that made far more sense. I have no idea what happened with TaxCut, but I suspect that they may have been missing a field somewhere along the line - this is a problem that has been noted by a number of others in reviews on a variety of sites. I will NOT be buying this product again.
- 2007-04-05, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
