Review by jasonhad

Preliminary Review - - -nnI have used TurboTax from Intuit since before the Roman Empire was founded, and whilst having the occasional gripe, have always loved the tax preparation software. A feature I particularly appreciated was the ease of transferring copious investment data from Quicken to Turbotax, saving hundreds of hours of manual entry to satisfy the prying eyes of the gnomes of the IRS. But if you purchase TurboTax 2012, IT WILL NOT TRANSFER YOUR DATA FROM THE 2010 QUICKEN SOFTWARE - YOU HAVE TO UPGRADE TO 2013 QUICKEN IN ORDER TO TRANSFER YOUR FINANCIAL DATA FROM 2012 !!!nnThis kind of entrapment of customers - deception if you are feeling charitable, highway robbery if you are being realistic - is totally unacceptable, reprehensible and borderline theft. My license to use 2010 Quicken was valid throughout 2012, yet Intuit won’t allow me to transfer my data to Turbotax because the license expires in 2013 ???nnSo, having returned my first copy of Quicken 2013 to the store from whence it came, and denied a refund despite its admitted failure to function correctly, then accepting a 50% discount on another software purchase as my consolation … I have now been forced to purchase a second copy of Quicken 2013 from Amazon so as not to develop hand cramps from transcribing data from Quicken 2010 into Turbotax 2013 !nnThis kind of maltreatment of customers is why I shall curse the days of birth of the Intuit developers and their demonic management, and then light candles to ask that their genes never be permitted to be passed on to another generation of thieves and scoundrels. I will also pray that one day soon a team of honest developers (in a software company that doesn’t have as its top priority the ravaging of the customer base in order to increase the value of stock options for the top managers) writes a solid tandem of software products that blows Intuit out of the water - and blasts those Intuit developers and managers back into the fires of Hades from whence they seem to have come.

The software itself is brilliant, if a bit on the heavy side. The preparation of a straightforward tax return is simple, fast, effective and as far as I have been able to discern, totally accurate. It would rate 5 stars if it weren’t for the scam I perceive as outlined above.

Update 8 Jan 2013 - - - - -nnIf you have foreign accounts, beware! When transfers are made from Quicken 2013 (Q2013) of 2012 data entered in Q2010 and transferred into Q2013 because TurboTax 2012 (T2012) will not take data from Q2010 … Euros are not converted to Dollars when the transfer to Turbotax is made! My compensation is paid directly into an account in Europe denominated in Euros - but the transfer takes the total amount and calls it dollars. The interest on my bank account is kept as the same number, but shown as dollars, not Euros. Same for everything else I’ve checked so far. I don’t think the IRS would be amused if I trusted Intuit’s software. Neither should you.