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Posted by Fuzzy Faced Leader on March 3, 2007, 4:29 am
Please log in for more thread options xyzzy.d...@gmail.com wrote:
> Every year I seem to stumble upon a basic in inadequacy in
> either TaxCut or TurboTax. By this I mean screens where
> their programmers appeared to just throw up their arms and
> say "ahh, to heck with it, just make the customer do it."
> This year's examples (so far) are:
>
> 1. If I paid AMT last year, TaxCut can't or won't compute
> what part of my state refund is taxable. See screen shot
> at:http://tinyurl.com/ynpzod. In my opinion there is no
> excuse for this screen -- I did both returns with TaxCut
> last year and imported the data so it has all the data
> necessary to do this computation, so why can't it compute
> this for me?
>
> 2. When doing my state tax form, TaxCut required me to
> manually enter IRA distributions received. Even though they
> are already entered on my federal form and the state program
> supposedly imports data from the federal forms.
>
> This year I'm experiencing these annoyances with TaxCut.
> But when I used to use Turbotax, it had just as many
> annoyances. Why can't these programs do these basic
> functions?
The old adage "You get what you pay for" is especially true
with tax software. Thats why CPA's spend thousands for
accurate software packages. Try TaxAct. More expensive,
but less problems.
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