TaxCut Standard 2002 Filing Edition

List Price: $14.99 Discount Price: $32.99

Features:

• No more wading through paperwork for hours -- the simple Tax Assistants bring you the financial assistance you need, step-by-step
• Work out the total taxable value on your stock portfolios, options, and capital gains with no trouble
• Then print out and mail your tax return and get your refund back in time at all!

Customer Reviews:

Zero stars would be more accurate [Posted on 2003-04-17]
This program insisted on a 4/15/03 or earlier date for one entry, but wouldn't let me enter it! It kept producing an error message. I finally had to use a 4/16/03 date which allowed the return to process. The next day the return was rejected for a late date, even though the software said it would be registered as on time if submitted before midnight which it in fact was. It then wouldn't allow me to log on to check on my re-submitted return. Live technical support was worthless, as they will not acknowledge or correct this major software error. I have used Turbo Tax for the previous several years without a glitch, and even saved money by using it. I didn't care for the spyware they have installed, and thus didn't use it this year. My returns are relatively simple and usually are done in an hour or less with little effort, using TT. Don't waste your money on Taxcut, and learn how to uninstall spyware.

no problems [Posted on 2003-04-18]
first time to use tax software - this program installed/ran fine on windows 2000 - I had to use the auto-update feature once, and it worked smoothly

Other than 1 401k-related item the help seemed vague about, filing my 1040 with this software was a piece of cake.

Good alternative to Turbotax [Posted on 2003-06-17]
I bought Taxcut this tax season because I was not interested in having Intuit's intrusive product activation features placed on my computer. I found Taxcut to be a decent alternative to Turbotax. (Is there any reason, though, why we have to put up with H&R Block putting Earthlink advertising on my computer?)

My first tax-prep software [Posted on 2003-06-18]
I can't really compare this software to others, but I can say that it did a pretty good job for me. Just spend about 20 minutes answering questions in the beginning, and it will do most of the rest. My tax return consisted of several jobs for both my wife and I, working in two different states, mutual fund and stock purchases and sales, interest and capital gains income, and a mortgage. I thought this would make my return to complicated for a comuter software, but everything I needed was here. Nad if for some reason you don't like what it does, you can manually change any entry. However, if you manually change entries, you will not be allowed to e-file.
I installed this on my desktop, and again on my laptop to do some work when my wife was working on the desktop. This worked fine. But there is no clear way of letting one computer know what you did on another computer, so multiple installations are for the most part useless.
The one thing I don't like is that it seemed like procrastinators are rewarded for their laziness in that this software gets cheaper the nearer you get to April 15th, to the point where it become free after rebate.

Seriously buggy---may cost me big time [Posted on 2004-03-21]
This software has a serious bug that may cost me a great deal of money.

My wife lived in Illinois for a year while I lived most of the year in California. In such a case, it is imperative that we file our Federal returns separately, otherwise Illinois will tax us on the money I earned in California!

TaxCut not only didn't warn us of this, it incorrectly computed the Illinois taxes using the part-year resident form. This was in spite of my having specified that my wife was in Illinois the whole year, and in spite of it being very plainly stated on the Illinois form that under such circumstances, a couple filing jointly could not use the form!

Unfortunately, I allowed TaxCut to e-file my return before I checked the state returns. Now I have to file an amendment.

I was also unable to get any help from TaxCut's customer support to stop the e-filing before it went through.

I'll never use their software again.

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