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My own tax situation is simple, so I have not needed anyone to do my own tax returns for a very long time. My preference in computers is the Macintosh. For nearly twenty years I have used Intuit's TurboTax to do my tax returns. Soon after Apple started and refined OSX and "killed" OS9; there came one year when OSX TurboTax wouldn't import it's last year tax file, created by their final TurboTax version for OS9. Because it stopped importing its own tax return file from the previous TurboTax version, I tried the Windows version. Surprisingly, their TurboTax for Windows imported the Macintosh-based OS9 tax file for my previous year, so I used their Windows version over the next couple of years. This article is my opinion and is not, legal advice. I am a judgment referral expert, and not a lawyer. When you want a strategy to use or legal advice, please contact a lawyer. A very long time ago, I signed up with TurboTax's yearly system, and they charged my credit card and mailed me a disc. In November 2012, Intuit emailed me telling me that my disc order was on its way, but TurboTax did not show up at my house. After I visited TurboTax's web site, I saw they now are moving to the web-based model. Intuit never informed me that they decided to not charge me or send me their CD. It was not clear to me that TurboTax's online system would be able to import last year's taxes, and that prompted me to decide to look at the competitors. I asked some buddies what they used, and several said they use TaxAct, so I tried it. Although the ads for TaxAct claim they are free; if you want to finish and e-file your federal and state tax returns, they're not actually free. They tried to up-sell to me often. Near the end of the process I paid around thirty-five dollars to complete my state and federal taxes and e-file them. When you do your taxes using any kind of tax preparation software, there's hundreds of questions to answer and options to choose. Up until the final steps, I thought I was going to pay about $18, and then near the end of the process, the price seemed to jump to $35. I was in a hurry to complete my taxes, so I just paid the thirty-five dollars, as that was still a lot less than buying the CD version of TurboTax. TaxAct has lots of good features. It imported a PDF of my last year taxes which I saved last year with TurboTax, which was really impressive. Although TaxAct told me to type in the exact same info in several places, overall it was really easy to use. When it came time to efile, like all tax programs; one has to navigate the government's system of using PINs and jump through some small extra hoops. I'm certain that all online tax preparation companies including TurboTax work perfectly, the same as all CD-based versions of tax preparation programs. Like nearly all software programs, I know tax software will all soon be online. Mark D. Shapiro of: http://www.JudgmentBuy.com - The fastest and easiest way to find the best expert to buy or recover your judgment.
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