Review by J. Donaldson

I’ve used Turbo Tax for over 10 years. My taxes are simple except for employee stock options, and stock and bond investments that have to be accounted for. Turbo Tax makes it easy.

Turbo Tax helps make sure I don’t miss something. After a full pass through the whole tax process it offers a review to ensure there isn’t something I left out.

I used to use a tax attorney but realized I was doing all the work by bringing all my paperwork to him, then he would interview me and pass the results onto a service that would enter the data (probably into something like Turbo Tax). One year I found a big tax deduction that the attorney forgot to ask about. At that point I dumped the whole idea of having someone else do my taxes. I had found this big deduction using Turbo Tax.

Turbo Tax gets better and easier to use each year. Make sure you load the latest updates. This year the update even included a user interface improvement that fixed something I didn’t like, so others must have complained.

Update December 2008: While improvements to the user interface are sometimes needed I find Intuit seems to make large changes each year which are not necessary. Change for change sake is not desirable. Functional improvements are appreciated, but changing a product so much that I only use once a year forces me to go through a new learning process each year.