TurboTax Premier 2005 with State Win/Mac [Old version]

If you want to save a lot of money and have some control over your taxes, this is the way to go. I have used it for years. Never once audited.

I purchased this program for my personal and home business tax return but it did not include all the forms needed so I had to buy another version from them. H&R TaxCut included all I needed and was 1/2 the price.

works like advertised--have your info ready and it will prompt you thru the necessary forms, saving the caculations and determinations for behind the scenes processing. This leaves you with a concise, good-to-go tax return. If you ever manually processed more than a very simple return, you know exactly what I mean.

We had to use this program due to a delay by our tax person. Overall the interface was nice and it walked us through the process. We didn't have any special forms need so that probably made it easier then from what I saw other reviewers have posted.

It did offer some advice for 401 deductions.

One annoying thing was that electronic filing costs $30 for state and feds.

You get 2 tries and then they will charge you again.

The feds kept getting rejected because of a supposed error for my wifes birth date. This is bogus as we have filed for years. We ended up printing out the forms and will mail them.

State went in ok.

We might try it one more time for next year.

I've been using TurboTax since 1999. We run two small companies and my background is in accounting. Hence, I have a VERY hard time giving someone else my bookkeeping and taxes to do, since I really have a hard time letting go of the control! (I've really got to get over that!!) Each year, it seems that TurboTax does nothing but improve! I typically delay until the last minute and cram it all in on April 14, and if it wasn't for the simplicity fo this software, I'd be filing extentions every year. Really, gathering all your stuff together is the hardest part. This software does everything else for you.