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 - Beware! Tax Cut installs adware on your computer.Tax cut installs adware on your computer when you do the update. The adware is pdfedit995 and software 995. When I pay for a piece of software I don't expect to be bombarded with ads or have third party software installed in my computer asking me for more money. The adware is installed without any notice to you or option not to install it. I will not be buying Tax Cut next year. I recommend choosing something else. Rating: - Very poor software if you're self-employedThis is my second year of using Tax Cut, and I faced with the same problem, which I think it is from a poor setup of this software. We can finish e-filing smoothly but you can't be guided for the estimate tax withheld. I had to go 1040-ES and State-ES to find how much I should pay and manually find the form. My wife asked why I changed from Turbo Tax, and I could answer, "It's cheaper." She just laughed. Yes I was cheap and have to pay for being so. Don't be like me, use Turbo Tax... Rating:  - taxcut does the math wrongTaxcut calculates the final refund incorrectly and is lower than turbotax. this is because taxcute prematurely rounds up all the "paid tax" numbers after the decimal point which results in lower refund value by $1.00. Every year, this is what is the difference in math between taxcut and turbotax. turbotax always gets you a $1 more in refund for exactly the same information you input into both the software programs. They acknowledged the mistake last year and gave my money back when i sent them printouts of the calculations of taxcut vs turbotax for exactly the same data input. Rating:  - Easy To Use But not good for State Taxes (in Vermont at least).I like this program - in general - much more than Turbo Tax because it installs fully the first time without "problems" and it is very easy to use! However - for Vermont, where there is a property tax "prebate" that residents must know to apply for...TaxCut does not have the forms one needs AND they do not tell you you need the forms. SO - I would never get the $550 "prebate" that I was entitled to this year, except that I knew about it from previous tax filings. Also, it bothers me that in order to get my "prebate" I had to fill out downloaded forms by hand after searching for needed information in my files and using a calculator to get some needed totals. To me, this is NOT what I should have to do after spending over $65 for a Fed./State/e-filing program!!! Besides, if Turbo Tax can fill out these forms automatically and have these same forms in its State of Vermont Tax Program - what is wrong with TaxCut doing the same thing??? (I chatted online with TaxCut's customer support about this problem and they told me (a week ago) that there would be no updates to their Vermont program and that they "do not include all needed forms" in their program.) NOW, wouldn't you think it is important to know about and be able to file forms HS-122 and HS-144 when you might get $500 or more back for submitting them? What does this say about TaxCut and their completeness of tax preparation software? What does this say about TaxCut's concern for their customers???? It tells ME that I need to go back to Turbo Tax next year - even with its installation problems - and save myself the hassle of handwriting information on self-downloaded and self-printed forms and not have to print an envelope and stamp it -- from now on!! I was very disappointed with TaxCut and it's "help." On-Line filing was easy and quick. Rating: - ITIN efile validation bugIn Taxcut website customer surport page, they claim the valid range for an ITIN is ***-70_*** to ***-80-***. However, the IRS website publishes the range as ***-70-*** to ***-88-***. This out-of-date info in Taxcut software is preventing people (with ITIN range between ***-81-*** and ***-88-***) from e-filing the tax returns. I called Taxcut twice, and pointed out this problem, but the support people were either too ignorant of the ITIN number and software update routines, or just gave me some wierd unhelpful solutions, such as delete the number, close the software, wait for 5 minutes, then try again. I am having little hope that Taxcut will fix this problem this year, and I can only do a paper-filing now even though I paid for the version with e-file included. Also, thinking of all the trouble I have to go through to get a refund, I don't even want to bother.
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