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- From: billj@b11.ingr.com (Bill Johnson)
- Subject: Re: TaxCut Tax Software
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.200824.21103@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Sender: billj@wcj (Bill Johnson)
- Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
- References: <9211131328.AA06817@slc10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:08:24 GMT
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- In article <9211131328.AA06817@slc10.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa473@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Brown) writes:
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- |>
- |> >
- |> >In article <1992Nov9.181412.2411@cypress.com>, mjl@cypress.com (Mike La Bouff) writes:
- |> >>Has anyone had experience with "Taxcut" from Meca? Is it as good
- |> >>as Turbotax? There is a windows version this year. Has anyone
- |> >>tried it?
- |> >>
- |> >>Mike
- |> >>
- |> >I used Taxcut last year, Turbotax the previous year, and Taxcut the year
- |> >before that. I prefer Taxcut, but not by that much. Both work quite well.
- |> >I have not used either windows version.
- |> >
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- |> > Michael Benedik INTERNET: Benedik@uh.edu
- |> >
- |> >
- |> Is anyone familiar with a package call "Personal Tax Edge " it is
- |> sold by Parsons Technology.
- |>
- |> My individual taxes should be fairly simple but I will also need to
- |> prepare a Partnership "informational" return which will have all the
- |> "joys" such as depreciation (in home) office expenses etc.
- |>
- |> Jim Brown
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- I used TaxCut for several years. Found it very easy to use, and like their
- gurantee that if the software miscalculated, THEY would pay for it!!
-
- However, last year I switched to TurboTax. Meca had decided to create a
- "Professional" version of TaxCut. To accomplish this, they pulled several of
- the supported forms out of the "Personal" version to include in the Professional
- version. Late in the year they decided NOT to release the Professional version,
- but they never returned the supported forms into the Personal version. This was
- a killer for me, since I required several of the forms they dropped. TurboTax
- was the only other tax software that came close to the forms I needed, and they
- also had an Alabama state tax package, which TaxCut did not offer.
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- I've decided to stick with TurboTax this year. If Meca puts those forms back
- into the Personal version, the two packages would be very similar.
-
- Bottom line is: check the software packages for the supported forms you need.
- Having to do your taxes is bad enough, but having it PARTIALLY automated is a
- real nightmare!
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- Bill
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