I dutifully filed my question, and a community member, who called herself TurboTaxNatasha, responded to my inquiry within an hour.
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(These prices can change, and downloadable versions cost more.) TaxACT was charging $20 for its Ultimate Bundle, which includes a federal and a state return. H&R Block was charging $50 for Premium and $37 for each state return. When I was using the programs in late January, TurboTax was charging $80 for Home and Business and $37 for each state return. H&R Block offered the easiest access to tax advisers and, in my nonprofessional opinion, the best advice. TurboTax was headache-free - everything I had to do within the program was intuitive and worked without a catch. The strengths by which each maker has distinguished itself endure. Based on my experiences, all three work fine for a family with a house, an investment portfolio composed mostly of mutual funds and additional income from freelance work. If you reach a point where you’d rather use an old-fashioned keyboard, you save your work, switch to your desktop or laptop computer and pick up where you left off.įor this review, I tried TurboTax Home & Business, H&R Block Premium and TaxACT’s Ultimate Bundle. And this year’s tablet apps represent an important advance: They let you fill out your return by tapping and swiping through interviews about your life circumstances, income and expenses. The three major companies - TurboTax, H&R Block and TaxACT - now offer online products and apps that enable you to bounce back and forth between your computer, your tablet and your smartphone as you work on your return. The fact that I could toil on a return in such laid-back circumstances shows how far tax preparation programs have come. My eyes kept drifting from the alternative minimum tax to the screen - which felt right, because I like the Los Angeles Lakers about as much as I like the I.R.S. Trying to do a tax return while lying on the couch, iPad balanced on my chest and a basketball game playing in the background, was admittedly distracting.