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Hello TaxCut, adios TurboTax
With one exception during the past dozen years, I've used TurboTax to do my federal and state tax returns. This year (2008 return), TurboTax changed its policies, effectively doubling the cost of what their software did on my 2007 return. So I decided to give TaxCut a try. The long and short of it is that I was most pleased and will plan to use TaxCut again next year.
About me: I am a freelance writer in Washington, DC. I have a chronic horror of tax time, because I can never find my way through the Byzantine labyrinth of tax forms and rules and regulations. I use tax-prep software, with their interview method, to avoid those horrors. Even TurboTax has occasionally carried me off into tall weeds. In those cases, I just make a wild guess at what to do, click an answer, and move on -- and probably pay a price, but who knows? I was pleasantly surprised at how simple TaxCut's interview was. I kept expecting little detours into the tall weeds, but they never came. For the first time, I e-filed my federal return (a freebie with TaxCut Premium), and it went through like a dream.