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- From: visbieda@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christopher Bieda)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for US Income Tax software?
- Summary: bad experience with ChipSoft
- Message-ID: <C0nIzG.2yH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 18:51:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.212945.4217@news.stolaf.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan9.212945.4217@news.stolaf.edu>, brownd@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (David H Brown) writes...
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- >I writing to request suggestions for a US income tax preparation program to
- >run on a DOS-only (640K) computer.
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- There is no better text-mode tax program than MECA's "TaxCut."
-
- >My mom has recently had a bad experience with the JK Lasser program from
- >ChipSoft (poorly redesigned user interface [lots of Alt-key combinations] and
- >wouldn't load background data from last year... last year's version did not
- >have these problems... she did call tech support re: background data).
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- Well, I dunno about Lasser (which was sold by Simon & Schuster, not ChipSoft),
- but I can swear to you, I used ChipSoft's market-leading TurboTax last year,
- and *hated* it. I will never use TurboCrap again.
-
- >Program should be able to handle multiple returns (she does my sister's taxes
- >for her), loading data from Quicken would be really nice, and ability to
- >transfer background data (names, dependents, etc.) from year-to-year would be
- >good, too. I guess ease-of-use is a big concern here.
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- Pretty much everybody will import Quicken data these days--it's the lingua
- franca of personal finance on the PC.
-