THIS is why I'm never using Turbotax or any other Intuit product again

[M A V I C]

Except for simple taxes, tools like TurboTax will cost you more than usual a competent accountant.

[Wags]

M A V I C wrote:
Except for simple taxes, tools like TurboTax will cost you more than usual a competent accountant.

Not sure I agree. I'm self-employed and file Schedule C and all that. It would cost me minimum $200 to have someone do it. I get by fine with the $50 package (but they wormed me out of an extra $25 this year). They used to do the county and city forms for me as well, but a couple years ago they stopped that and just give me blank forms. That sucks.

Seems like it would be simple for the IRS to provide software for free, but that will never happen thanks to the lobbyists.

[mattkime]

M A V I C wrote:
Except for simple taxes, tools like TurboTax will cost you more than usual a competent accountant.

I paid $40. Last I paid an accountant I felt like I paid someone else to enter the data into turbotax. Then again, I wouldn't be dealing with this if I paid someone.

[M A V I C]

I'm not talking about the purchase price. I've run my taxes though it and had an account do it. Accountant charged me $1k, but they saved me 10x that over TurboTax.

[Acer]

PeterB wrote:
I gave up on TT this year, because they no longer support Mojave. So I got H&R Block, which works but is EXTREMELY crashy... and I learned the hard way that, for reasons I don't understand, the app doesn't auto-save your return. Still, it worked OK.

Ha, just ran into this myself. On the third try entering, I went into 1990s mode, that is to manually save after every change. It did not crash after that, but I don't know if it was cause and effect or just luck.

[freeradical]

M A V I C wrote:
I'm not talking about the purchase price. I've run my taxes though it and had an account do it. Accountant charged me $1k, but they saved me 10x that over TurboTax.

This is true if you have a complicated tax situation.

However, for people who "work for the man", and all of their tax data is on 1099's that the IRS already has, they will save no money having an accountant do their taxes.

[NewtonMP2100]

....don't give up on TT.....

[M A V I C]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
I'm not talking about the purchase price. I've run my taxes though it and had an account do it. Accountant charged me $1k, but they saved me 10x that over TurboTax.

This is true if you have a complicated tax situation.

However, for people who "work for the man", and all of their tax data is on 1099's that the IRS already has, they will save no money having an accountant do their taxes.
People with 1099's are great candidates for a good accountant.

[Lux Interior]

Wags wrote:
So just put in 0 and voila!

Wish that worked for me.

Pisses me off that they want my spouses AGI.

Hello? Marries filing jointly! We only have ONE AGI!

For 2020 I entered "0" for spouse and it went through (after being rejected for using the actual #).

This year I tries all permutations:

Me: AGI Spouse: AGI - REJECETED!
Me: AGI Spouse: Zero - REJECETED!
Me: Zero Spouse: AGI - REJECETED!
Me: Zero Spouse: Zero - REJECETED!