Review by Long-Suffering Technology Consumer

I’ve been a TurboTax user since 1998. Of all the things a PC brings to a household, one thing I appreciate most is the taming of the onerous chore of tax preparation into something much simpler. Tax time for me used to be a three-day long parade of headache-inducing calculations and HOPING I had all the correct forms. TurboTax has turned three days of extended misery into a couple hours of compressed misery. Intuit had rough period in the early 2000s with privacy and functionality in TurboTax (and a STINGY approach to how many users could prepare taxes from a single copy). Happily, those days are far in the past.

This version allows you to prepare up to five federal returns. Installation and updating were painless on a Windows 7 machine. Because I had data from last year’s edition on my computer already, our personal data was already filled in, and it smartly queried about the same sources of income and interest and deductions/credits as last year. It also handled a major change in our filing status.

With all of my tax documents at hand, and a moderately complex 1040 filing scenario, I was finished in less than an hour. Sweet. Error checking and efiling was painless, and I am now eagerly awaiting a modest federal refund while procrastinating re-investing that into the userious coffers of my home state:-)nnSelect with confidence!