Turbo Tax or any other self-preparation SW

[irinam]

Have you used it?

Is it worth it? Is it super complicated or rather intuitively obvious?

What about when you have itemized? Like mortgage, stocks, donations? What about Small Business?

TIA!

PS. Yeah, I am a procrastinator

[mightymoo]

I did our taxes for the first time last year with turbotax (DH did them before and has used turbotax.com since about 2000). I had never done them before and I found it really easy. We don't have a business, but we do have stock sales, option sales, deductions, etc. It's just basically like answering a bunch of questions. It walks you through everything.

My dad is a real estate agent and has to do the whole Schedule C thing and he uses turbotax too (though he uses the box version, not online, somewhat out of familiarity, I don't know if there is a difference)

[daekini]

I *love* TurboTax for the web. You don't have to pay till you file your taxes, and it's realllllly easy... I have fairly complicated finances and it's no problem for me. Also, I used it to check previous tax returns that were done by one of the top tax prep agencies and found over a thousand $$$ worth of discrepancies, I got it all back and was able to get a refund from the agency that screwed up.

[JenLove]

We have TurboTax and I have just started using it this year. I have a small business, and so far it hasn't been a pain. It takes you through step by step so you don't miss anything.

[irinam]

Oh thank you thank you thank you!

Last yesr my accountant charged me $450 , so i say even if it takes me a week to figure it out, it will be worth it!

Off to download it...