TurboTax

Did you find an answer to your question? If not I would call the helpline for an answer. I like Turbo Tax, I think it works pretty well. The only thing I would caution against is the same thing I was talking about earlier...don't go for the instant refund...they charge you extra for it and it really doesn't come through THAT much faster...

I used turbotax this year for the first, and probably last time. It seemed I was given the opportunty to buy quicken and several other products throughout the process. Honestly, the thing took longer downloading upgrades and checking for new rules that didn't apply to me than I would have spend completing a dozen manual forms. Probably could have saved over an hour just by asking if I had been affected by hurricane katrina.

This year's TurboTax has the same remote import features as the previous years (I imoprted my W-2 for example). I've used TT every year for the last 10 or so and never had any problmes with it.

Fine. I waited hours on mine. The following morning, it had shut down and was about ready to use the next evening. No more for me.

Interesting Roger! I don't know of anyone else that's had problems with it.

They do get a bit irritating with updates. I've learned to wait and buy it directly from them on-line (instead of the discs they sell in stores) so that I get the latest/greatest updates when I install it the first time and others have already use dit for a month or so so many of the bugs have already beed fixed.

It took maybe 10 minutes to install for me. Sorry you had problems...

I love 'em, it was very easy this year. All done online. I never buy the boxed TT software.

Neither do I. No more again forever.

I switched to TaxCut by H&R Block a few years ago. It imports info from a previous TaxCut or TurboTax file.

Roger, my download on dial-up took just under 1.5 hours this morning (can you say, procrastinate?). You'll notice the time savings the second year and beyond because everything is preloaded from this year's return. You just have to change the numbers to reflect the current year's income, etc.

I have a fairly complicated return that took me less than a hour to complete once I had the software installed and my paperwork pulled together.

Now, all I need to do is to figure out how to grow money on trees to pay the taxes by Monday.

I was in the Post Office this morning, and saw a list. Apparently, some of the post offices in my area are open until midnight on tax day!

I thought my post office was open until midnight last year and was quite surprised to see an empty parking lot at 8:00pm. There was a sign in the window with the list of POs that were staying open late to post returns. The closest one to me was down in the city (about an hour away). Rather than waste an hour driving to Chicago, I threw my envelopes in the outside mailbox and figured I'd get a late penalty from the IRS and/or the state of IL. I never heard a thing <shrug>.

J_B, there isn't going to be 'a next year'.