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 - Turbo Tax - A Couple Bugs, But Still Well Worth The MoneyOverall, I have no regrets about my purchase of Turbo Tax. It is far cheaper than a professional accountant. I'm not sure if I really got a ton of value out of the additional functionality in the Home and Business edition. My wife and I each have a Schedule C business, but they are both pretty simple, we keep really good records (just in Excel), and I probably could have just entered the values into a simple Schedule C Worksheet. Again, no complaints, just not sure if it was worth the additional money ($30 or $40, I think). I did encounter one bug in the product (which may have since been fixed - I did get new updates almost every time I went back in). On the Schedule D worksheet, there was a problem where the Long/Short term gain indicator wasn't saving. Luckily, I caught this, as it defaults to short term and would have made about a $40K difference to me! When I overrode is manually, it worked, but then when I ran Error Check, it said I had 96 errors (it somehow found 8 errors on each of the 12 Cap Gains worksheets). I had somehow created some blank rows on each worksheet and was choking on those. Rating: - Great as usual, but I miss the free Federal Electronic Filing that I have used for many years.I have used Turbo tax since it first came out. I used to have an accountant that charged me $400 back in the 80's and caused me to have a costly mistake in my inventory numbers. I learned that I can put together my business numbers, that I gave to him and just enter them in Turbo Tax. Always worked great and then when the free Federal electronic filing came around, I used it every year and then just mailed in my simple State return. About ten years back, I took the H & R tax course and worked for them for a season, so I know a little more than most about taxes and can use the form system or the guided questions that Turbo Tax asks. I really recommend that people should take the H & R course in the summer. It was a huge surprise to me that this year free Federal electronic filing was not included and I had to pay for it! I always paid for the State Electronic Filing, but now there were two extra fees. This is why TT is getting four stars instead of five. By the way, my son, the poor student, was able to file electronically for free with the online version of Free Turbo Tax which we found thru the government website: irs.gov/efile Rating:  - Not Good for Guam if You're Self-EmployedFor anyone who lives in Guam and has self employment income - don't buy this product! It does not have the capability to produce a 1040 SS. So I wasted my time and money only to have to either do it myself or pay more money to a tax preparer. Rating: - 2006 ReviewSeems to work OK but still have problems moving around efficiently. Product doesn't seem intuitive about the users needs and every year it is constructed differently but doesn't seem any better or easier than the previous year. Rating:  - Turbo TaxGreat price. Beats Office Depot by at least $20.00. Love this software. I got my refund and it was more that what I expected. Easy to use, fast, this is my 5th year in a row using this software.
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