Review by Sam M. Tannenbaum

TurboTax Deluxe is easy to install and the interface is intuitive and easy to use. I can’t comment on the start-to-finish tax-return experience yet, as I won’t have everything needed to complete my return for a few more months. I will update this review with my full experience at that time.

FIRST UPDATE- 27 MARCH 2016: My return has been filed and I’m just giving it a bit of time to make sure no problems come back, but I have to say that I’m shocked by how easy this was. I have a fairly complicated return- nothing unprecedented, but I do have a tax situation that requires about a dozen forms, several worksheets, and a good half-day’s worth of work to do myself.

With TurboTax? Half an hour, literally. I did it with a basketball game on in the background. I checked it a few times, and everything was where I expected it to be. Not only that, but my payment was about a third of what I expected it to be based on last year’s return. Some of that has to do with lower numbers on my end this year, but I’ll go ahead and throw a little vague credit Intuit’s way anyhow.

I’ll update this review once more after my payment has been fully processed and I know there’s nothing left to do for this year, but assuming there aren’t any issues, I am absolutely a regular TurboTax customer going forward. This experience was everything Intuit markets it as, and I couldn’t be happier.