Intuit TurboTax Deluxe

I've used Taxcut in previous years but this year I had a large number of short term stock transactions so I went with TurboTax instead. It worked great. I imported 50+ transactions directly from my brokers… (Interactive Brokers & Schwab) without a hitch. I didn't have any 'wash sales' so this worked well for this tax year. I didn't find much difference in other areas and 1 free eFile was enough for me so I'm happy.

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I bought TurboTax Delux 08, Federal only. I had enjoyed good experience in previous years with this product. I bought the best price available at the time. I had misgivings due to the uproar over Intuit's… limiting each license to one return, but I understood that that consumer outcry had forced a reversal of that policy. However, when I opened the mailer I could find no evidence that the product was not limited to one return in spite of Amazon's assurances. I had to load the product and read the license to be certain that I could produce more than one return. The one bug that continued to derail my work was this; in entering data for Schedule C, every time I encountered the "Use of Car in Business" screen, and tried to close or bypass it, the program forced me onto a "Log on to Internet" screen. This could not be closed, or backed out of - attempts just locked up my PC. After restarting the program, I had to leave "Interview" and go to the Schedule C form to finish the data entry. I have never encountered a bug in previous editions of TurboTax.

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