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Customer Reviews of TaxCut Premium Home & Business 2003

I experienced many of the problems of the other reviewers, including:

--Gaps in the interview process that simply refer you to IRS instructions.

--Software refused to launch after installing state product, requiring a reinstall. Fortunately, I had already printed out a draft of my return, so I'm just looking at having to do some data entry rather than start from scratch.

--State product for my state (NY) was worse than the free, fill-in version of the form available from the New York State website. Not only did it simply display the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance instructions instead of walking me through my return, but the "updated" form refused to print because, according to the software, it wasn't approved by New York State.

Fortunately, TaxCut offers a no-questions-asked refund, which I took them up on for the state business product. Because the refund is for a downloaded product, I didn't have to mail any disks back or fill out any forms to get my refund.

I'm sticking with TaxCut, bugs and all, for my federal return because it is less than half the price of TurboTax , and because I don't want to pay for and wait for shipping of a product I have no way of knowing is any better.

Here's what I suggest for other intrepid souls who wish to use TaxCut to file their business returns:

--View the product for what it is: simply an aid to filling out your own taxes.

--Become thoroughly familiar with your own tax situation; get tax books and download the IRS forms and instructions as well. Don't rely on the software to know anything you don't--and be pleasantly surprised when it does.

--Check your completed return carefully for any anomalies (mine inexplicably included a form I didn't need).

--Do not purchase the state product; you'll do much better with the interactive forms available from your state website.

Worst software I've ever tried to use
I purchased this software based on reviews I read on Amazon where Turbo Tax wasn't rated as highly on the day I was researching. In reading the reviews today, I am gratified to learn that my problems were common among other users.
The problems I encountered were extreme difficulty installing the software and then not having updates available yet. When they finally were available, then I had trouble getting the updates to download and function properly. I had a problem getting assistance because the help people operate on East Coast time so they aren't available in the evenings when I'm working on this. I cannot believe that any product related to taxes would provide such limited hours of support. Long and short - after about 6 frustrating days, I gave up on TaxCut. I went to the IRS and my state website and downloaded extension forms as I had run out of time, patience, and sanity. For the aggravation I just experienced, I want to warn anyone else that this software is horrible. Since I had to do so much uninstalling and reinstalling, my computer is noticeably slower than before my Tax Cut experience. I hope that I didn't screw up my computer as they had me doing all kinds of things to it to try to get the software to download. They said the registry was not fully installing for some reason. Now I think maybe my computer was trying to tell me something - like "please don't load this garbage into my hard drive" - STAY AWAY FROM TAX CUT HOME & BUSINESS!

Worst program EVER
If this product even exists next year, I will be amazed.

This program is by far the WORST program I have ever used. The interface is bad. The installation is buggy. The data entry only "remembers" the first letter of what you type and you don't find that out until later in the interview process. The updates disable the program so it no longer loads. The tax forms are still "out of date" and "unapproved" even though it is days before the corporate filing deadline. And then there is that slight problem of it not printing.

Oh, and I tried installing this on three different computers with three different configurations (XP-Pro, 98, NT). It doesn't work on any of them! The fact that it does not work (in different ways, of course) really shows its bugginess... I would have almost thought the install on my CD was bad if it was consistently sucky. But no. This is just a horrible piece of software.

At one point I did get some semblance of the software to run (no printing, but I didn't know that until I finished the effort), but in the so-called "interview" it just lists off almost random questions that you have to figure out what the hell they mean. If I was that much of a tax-wiz, I wouldn't need a program like this! I expected some layman's-language guidance, but instead get random quotes from the IRS form. With no explanation, even when I click on the supposed "help" (which tells me how to use my mouse or tab in the program - gee that helps).

I am absolutely taking them up on their 100% guarantee and getting a refund. This embarrassment of a program should never have seen the light of day, and can only be horrible joke of some kind. Run away from this program, and get a refund if you already wasted your money on this.