TurboTax Premier Federal + State + eFile 2008 [OLD VERSION]

I have used TurboTax Premier for several years. I thaught is was an excelent price for TurboTax Premier 2008 from this seller. I used it to file my taxes and experienced no problems!

Product came as advertized, delivered on time. Price was not as competitive as I had hoped.

I have been using TurboTax products for many years, but no more. I am appalled at the price increases and the changes they have made regarding the number of returns that can be done. The free e-File feature is a joke. TaxCut here I come!

You may not need this expensive version of TurboTax if youre buying it primarily because you also have investment income (Schedule D). I realize TT has recommended this but theyve recanted and told me that the 2008 Deluxe version will be every bit as capable as the 2007 Deluxe version was in guiding us through the Schedule D, C, SE and other self employment forms. Heres the dialogue: TurboTax support has been extremely responsive in calling me back regarding my complaint to them about how badly theyre confusing people on which TT product to buy. Id like you to read my question to them and then their answer. The bottom line is that TTDeluxe 2008 is every bit as comprehensive (and more) as the TTDeluxe 2007 product. There are no takeaways and no real reason for a Schedule D user to have to buy the Premiere version and no significant reason why a self-employed person MUST buy the Home/Business version. He knew their company screwed up and caused a public relations nightmare. Apparently the recommended upgrade products have expanded guidance and help for the uninitiated TT user. If this 2nd review of mine is not accepted by Amazon, I will try to post it to the Premiere version and the Home/Business version and also as a comment to my 1st review here. My question: Considerable confusion exists as to whether a person with investment income/transactions or self employed income absolutely needs to buy the considerably more expensive Premiere or Home/Business version. Your website indicates that the Deluxe version includes forms Sched. D, Sched. C, SE etc. and yet you say we should buy the more expensive program. This doesnt make sense. Ill be happy if Deluxe 2008 is as comprehensive as Deluxe 2007 was but nowhere do you compare the 2008 and 2007 versions. You are getting very bad reviews this year on Amazon because of all this confusion. People believe you are taking away function from Deluxe and raising the price to boot. Their response: These are the actions we took to assist you in resolving your issue: I was able to express to Sam that the Deluxe program will have the same functionality as in previous years, as well as additional features as well. Sam express his confusion on the product features and that of the comparison between each of the verison of TTax. I informed Sam that he has given me a great piece of reference when relaying the changes, functions, and ease of usage within the program. I will be able to inform my supervisors on this as well as urge the response for our return customers, as well as new. Thank You Sam.

Found some glitches when trying to go back and fix some numbers but it is still the best program I have used.

Every year I purchase Turbo Tax, usually from the local Sams or Costco. I am happy with the purchase from Amazon.com and will most likely purchase it from here next year too.

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Intuit has made the tedious task of working through the tax return process relatively painless. I prepared returns for two adults and three children in about a day. This includes federal and multiple state returns as well as some rental property that normally would have required an accountant to understand. The federal and first state software was reasonably priced at Amazon, bt the extra $40 for each additional state was painful.

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For those who complains about paying for their childrens return, they can still use the Federal Free version for their kids. Most kids will only need a 1040EZ, so I dont think this is much of a problem. The larger problem is for married filing separately and for those who do their parents return as they are seniors. The ten dollars per additional return does hurt. I do understand how people are upset. However, if we went to the tax preparer individually, we would have to pay each tax preparation individually. I dont have problems with paying per user. What I have a problem with is the price increase on top of the pay per user costs. I felt Intuit should have lowered the cost in order to charge per addtional return or raise the price and left it with first 5 free. However, with the double charge of increase price and additonal per return charge, I feel they are pricing themselves out of the market. Of course, for those who trust turbotax, they will begrudgingly pay the extras, for others, its important to go to the competitor. Update 12/31/08: Since Turbo tax changed their fee structure, I decided to stay with Turbotax and I even upgraded to the Premier version. Thanks Intuit.