Tax filing software

[Scott]

Looking for input on income tax filing programs, I'm considering Kiplinger's TaxCut Deluxe www.taxcut.com and curious to know if anyone has any experience with this or simular programs.

Thanks

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Scott

[sheila]

I have no experience with taxcut, but we've been using TurboTax for years, and it seems to work fine.
http://www.quicken.com/taxes/

[Melprophet]

I used Turbo tax for a couple of years and was fine with it. But two years ago Tax Cut was cheaper so I tried that. It was ok for our return, but we also used it to do my mother in laws tax return as well. She died that tax year and in order to claim the refund for her return my wife as the executrix needed to fill out a form 1310 and attach a death certificate, or so Tax Cut said.

We followed the instructions and took Tax Cut's word as to how to fill out that 1310 form but sure enough, 5 weeks later we got a letter from the IRS stating that the form 1310 was filled out incorrectly and incomplete, so they returned the return.

Turned out all we needed was a court certificate showing my wife was the legal executrix.

Went back to Turbo Tax afterwards, and I'm sticking with it.

Mel

[jimbo]

I'll get on the TurboTax line too...

I went to school for accounting, and IMO, TurboTax has the best tax calculation functions, deduction finders, and the best handle on individual state laws.  Plus it'll let you file online.  For s's & g's  a few years back I did my taxes with both TurboTax and Kiplinger, and TurboTax found a few more possible deductions, and gave me a total savings of almost $300 in taxes over what Kiplinger came up with.

Intuit has become the master at financial apps.  I use Quicken2001 at home, and my company uses QuickBooks for about 25 subsidiaries.  They are usually right on track in regards to tax law and all that jazz.

Plus it's about the same cost as Kiplinger is.

HTH

-jim

[Scott]

Thanks for the input everybody   

I'm going to give Turbotax a try.

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Scott