Guidance for all your personal tax situations. Federal forms. Step-by-step interviews guide you through a customized experience relevant to your tax situation. Everything you need to prepare your federal taxes in one complete program.Best Features:- Do-it-yourself tax software for investors and homeowners
- Everything needed to easily complete federal tax returns
- Customized interview process; user-friendly interface; audit support
- Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income
- 5 free federal e-files; quickly import data; Maximum Refund Guarantee
Not so fast - if you're using Window 7. By SMLE Mark 4
This program refused to install on my window 7 units; 32 or 64 verison. This is after I exchanged the program twice - same result; Called the tech support and it still doesn't work.
However, It does works on my old xp machine; I haven't test it on my mac yet - but I think it should work okay.
But seeing how their software had been plague by tech issues - (last year, I also exchanged the disk twice due to disks failure, one had no program on it.) I am guessing I will start using other tax program next year - too bad too because they were great programs.Not so great if you have a lot of capital gain transactions By J. A. Davidson
I've been a H&R Block user for over ten years, since it was called TaxCut. It's a good program, and I think it's great for 1.) novices who don't need to use a professional tax preparer and 2.) professionals who want to prepare returns for their family or friends, and don't who don't have access to a industrial-grade program at their office for that purpose.
However, as with all things, you get what you pay for. But this year - you get even less. I had a more active year then usual in the stock market, and when I read my brokerage statement, I found that I was going to have to record over 100 stock sales on my tax return. (Due to the way the broker records stock sales, I may have given an order to sell, say 1000 shares of stock, and it was actually sold in ten 100 share transactiosn - and is being reported to the IRS that way, so I've got to match it on my return or explain it later to the IRS)
So I entered my first couple of sales on the interview page for "Sales of Stock...Form 1099-B" and find out that this is great for folks who don't ahve a lot to enter, but ater thirty this became very tedious. The interview form is not designed for repititive data entry work. I looked to the right-hand side of the page and saw a question "What if I have a lot of transactions to enter?" OK - that's me. The answer was simple. WHne you enter a transaction, click on the "Whole Form" button to switch to the worksheet view, and you can then just enter data.
I tried that and I sailed through the next entry. Then I tried to paste the description of the transaction (After all when you seven entries that read CALL AAPL 6/17/2010@22.50 to enter, it's easier to just paste the data each time) and then discovered - you can't paste in the worksheet form. But you can paste if you're in the slower interview form.
I called H&R Block's customer server to make sure I wasn't makign a mistake. Nope. Her advice was to highlight the data I wanted to past, use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy can paste. If that didn't work, then I have to manually type it in.
So I'll either have to manually typoe everything in, force myself to slog through the interview form, or forgoe electronic filing, and enter a manually override amount, and attach the copy of the broker's statement to a paper copy tax return. None of these sound appealing.
So use H&R Block - it does work. Just be aware of the limitations if you have a lot of data to enter.The product you hate to love... By S. Elliott
I've been using H&R Block Tax Cut for 4 years now and love it on my Mac. My Dad uses it on his Windows PC and likes it too.
I work full-time and have a very small "hobby" computer consulting business endeavor and the employer I support files 1099's each year so this version fits me perfectly.
The first few Mac versions were a bit buggy but now it's rock solid. Even let's me backup to an external drive, CD or even to iDisk, directly from the program. Well done H&R Block! The Best-Selling H&R Block At Home 2010 Deluxe Federal + eFile [Old Version] then to sell out very fast, if this is a must have product, be sure to order now to avoid disappointment.
