TaxCut 2005 Premium + State [Old Version]

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $22.49

Features:

• Extra assistance for home owners, investors and rental property owners
• You can maximize your business deductions, from advertising and meals to entertainment expenses. Plus, you’ll enjoy extra guidance on depreciating business assets.
• H&R Block’s Premium Tax Tips and Advice helps you with useful tips covering charitable contributions, rentals, dividends, interest, capital gains, and more.
• Help you get answers to all stock options questions, including the consequences of their transactions on all types of options, including incentive, nonqualified, and employee stock.
• H&R Block DeductionPro now included inside.

Accessories:

NeatReceipts Scanalizer Professional 2.5 Mobile Scanner and Software

Customer Reviews:

Some apparent defects and poor support [Posted on 2006-04-26]
I had an issue with the error checker finding copy number problems when none existed. Online support told me to delete the forms and re-enter, which did not solve the problem. They kept cutting and pasting some verbiage that had nothing to do with my problem, insisting I try that. In the end I gave up after three separate sessions and ignored the warning. Online support resources were very thin, The online chat seemed good at first but could not go past standard cut and paste responses.

Also, the interview was hard to re-enter after exiting to forms sometimes. Plus going back in the interview often jumped to the beginning of the section instead of one page back.

Poor Software [Posted on 2006-06-23]
This product is not as user friendly as the competative product, Turbo Tax that I have used for the past 5 years. I also found that when I sent my taxes in I was told that the figure that Tax Cut had arrived at was wrong and I owed money. Technical Staff at Tax Cut were not available in a timely manner, and some three months after the tax deadline finally told me that they do not calculate the bottom line tax due in the same way that the Federal and State Governments do and rounding errors can occur. What do you buy this product for but to get it right the first time!

Never Using TaxCut Again! [Posted on 2006-10-17]
I've been using TaxCut Since 2001 and have never been really happy with it, but every year something happens that is annoying and I finally think it is time to move on. One year, due to buggy programming it SKIPPED my entire IRA interview so I made an error on my taxes and ended up having to pay an additional $900 plus a penalty. The HUGE amount of work required to prove this error to take advantage of the "Guarantee" is a joke and not worth the time. I have learned that you can never never just rely on the interviews and that they often aren't phrased clearly enough so you don't know really where you are in the return. I have complicated taxes, so I really need things to be logically and clearly spelled out.
This year's nightmare came when after I printed out a draft, I found that the file had been corrupted and all my information had to be re-entered! I'm not sure what the hell happened but I just couldn't get the data file open and I ran out of time.
Also, don't expect the State Returns to be all that helpful, they force you to do alot of your own calculations, and I often had no idea what I was really doing because there wasn't much explanation. Scary.

Next year, I'm trying TurboTax!

Do not buy H&R Block Tax Cut 2006 it has defects and poor support  [Posted on 2007-02-24]
I purchased Taxcut 2006 and it has errors and defects . After completeing 1040 form at the end when your using a SSA-1099 form the software asks for a Imployer I.D. when there is none and will not transmit to IRS unless the Employer I.D. number is entered. Called customer support and they could not deal with the problem and hung up on me . Could not download updtates for Deduction Pro 2006 message error came up DP 7007 and to redownload .After 6 times gave up and could not transfer figures from Deduction Pro 2006 to 1040 form got message deduction pro 2006 needs up date .Contacted HR block customer service at 1-888-482-9288 and Customer Service gave me a FTP download site when logged on to said no such site exsits . Requested a refund and sent a complaint to the FTC and Missouri Attorney Generals Office . Customer Service also sent over 20 surveys asking how they did as harrassment .Going to Turbo Tax next year

After update works good [Posted on 2007-04-05]
I could not get the deduction to import, so I called customer support. They answered in less than 1 minute! I told them the problem I was having. They sent me an email with the following link.

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Downloaded the file ~16.9 MB. Ran the file (this un-installs, then re-installs the Deduction Pro 2006). I tried to import, still had the error. Opened deduction pro, opened the deduction file I was working on, and re-saved it. Tried to import again - NO problems :-). So if you are having problems, download the update. Run the update. Open your deduction file you started, and re-save it.

I really liked the 2005 version better, I think this version is a little more difficult to figure out.

So far - I am pretty satisfied.

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