How are you filing taxes?

[ablang]

How are you filing your taxes this year?

a. Myself using IRS forms
b. CPA or someone else to do it for me
c. using software I bought (please specify which)
d. online (please specify which URL)
e. other (please specify)

Myself.

www.taxcutonline.com

[Theophylact]

Myself, using TurboTax. I've been using it since an early DOS version I ran on a Kaypro 8088. I'd already bought this year's version before finding out about their hideous, intrusive, difficult-to-clean-up-after Digital Rights Management scheme (a.k.a. "spyware"). Unless they get rid of it, next year I'm switching to TaxCut (assuming it'll let me import my TurboTax files).

[Xeroid]

TurboTax for the web.

This will make the 4th year I've used it.

Mike

[Theophylact]

Out of curosity, Xeroid, why the web version? Surely you could have picked up a CD-based version cheaper.

[Ed_S]

Originally posted by Theophylact
Myself, using TurboTax. I've been using it since an early DOS version I ran on a Kaypro 8088. I'd already bought this year's version before finding out about their hideous, intrusive, difficult-to-clean-up-after Digital Rights Management scheme (a.k.a. "spyware"). Unless they get rid of it, next year I'm switching to TaxCut (assuming it'll let me import my TurboTax files).

WHAT??

I use TT also, but haven't bought mine yet - what is a "Digital Rights Management scheme"??

[DaveLewis]

I've used TurboTax for the last eight or nine years and then switched to Tax Cut this year because of TT's registration policy. Tax Cut imported my data from last year and filled out the forms okay but Tax Cut never would let me file electronically. I spent a couple of hours with Tech support as they read through their scripts and the best we could come up with was that there was some kind of a glitch in last year's data. So I printed out the forms and sent them in via snail mail. I'm still doing direct deposit so my refund should be pretty fast but I was a litle disappointed.

[Ed_S]

Theophylact, thank you ver very much for pointing that out - a little research turned up this article:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,881674,00.asp
also this site -
http://www.drmdaily.com/

In the case of Turbo Tax, "digital rights management" appears to equal an insidious product activation scheme.

And I'll pass.


Very disappointed, though. Intuit was practically the ONLY software maker I still trusted...

Guess I'll do the pen, paper, & calculator method this year...

[CERuppel]

THis will be the third year that I am going thru a paid CPA.

Not only is it easier, but just in the last three years he has saved me over twice what he has charged me.

Before this current CPA a close friend whose whole family is CPA's did the taxes for us. RIP Paul.

[Terminal23]

It’s the easiest and quickest way I think. I didn’t even have to order it this year. They sent it directly to me and all I did was go online after installing it and pay for it. Plus now, you can even store the information about your tax returns online for free. So, if I have to reformat I don’t lose the previous years info. I really enjoy the program.