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 - Exactly what I needed - but if you E-file, it'll cost you extraI knew what I needed and Amazon seemed like the best place to get it, since it was the lowest price. I loved the product, but I did expect to have additional costs for an extra state. I also had to pay extra to e-file. If you buy straight from the Turbo Tax website, the e-file fees are already included. I would recommend buying from there and downloading from there as well if you're going to e-file, but if you'd rather mail in your return, Amazon is the place to get it, because it still is the cheapest price. Rating:  - TurboTaxI have loaded the product, but have not yet used. We have been using Turbo Tax since it first came out and each year has been an improvement over the previous - - I find it simple to use with all the assistance and explanation which I need. Thanks. Rating:  - No help on excess contributionsI knew that I had excess contributions to my IRA, and bought Turbo Tax to help me with filling out the forms properly. When it properly calculated that I had $1000 in excess contributions, it did not ask me if I wanted to withdraw that excess before the deadline. Instead, it just gave me a 10% penalty. Since I planned to withdraw the excess, the penalty doesn't apply. The only way I found around this was to say I only contributed $3000 versus $4000, which may be what Turbo Tax intended. Also, it's providing no help in how to handle the earnings that I have to withdraw. It's assuming that I have a 1099-R, but I won't have that for a while, because I can't withdraw the excess contributions until after 15 April. But I need to estimate my earnings when I request an extension and estimate my taxes. In short, I had to do too much of the thinking and analysis and reading of IRS publications. Rating: - Good Tax Preparation ProgramProduct was relatively easy to use and very accurate. Could have had better discriptions of topics, termanology, guidance. Needs to be a little easier to navigate backwards, forwards, and to specific topics or areas for revisiting. Sometimes you need to jump around if you forget something. The program should have a little better way of doing this. Rating: - I'm a first time user. It's easy and their support team is good.My tax picture is more complex this year. I e-mailed my friends for help; maybe their accountant would answer my questions for an hour's fee. No accountant wants the liability in exchange for an hour's fee. One friend recommended TurboTax. I fiddled with their on-line version and didn't like the difficulty in printing my worksheets. I bought the boxed version - cheapest from Amazon - and I'm still working on it. However, the telephone support for my rather arcane questions was unbeatable. It's exceptionally user friendly and very well referenced - I can find what I want with one or two clicks. I think it's very good.
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