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TurboTax Home and Business Fed + E-File + State 2012
- Helps you get every dollar you deserve from your personal and small business taxes
- Extra guidance for self-employment and small business deductions
- Get expert help when you need it, free
- Double-checks your return for deductions and credits and helps you avoid triggering an audit
- Includes one TurboTax State product download
TurboTax Home & Business: For your personal & small business income taxes
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TurboTax Home and Business Fed + E-File + State 2012
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DOESN’T RUN ON OLDER MACS – HOW TO KNOW IF YOU CAN USE TURBOTAX FOR MAC,
Special Note to all the Mac Users! Check to see if you can run TurboTax before buying it! You might need a new computer to run TurboTax this year.
The Requirements are not made clear.
Your Mac needs 2 things or TurboTax will not run. This applies to ALL versions of TurboTax for Mac. It does not matter if you get the CD or if you buy the download. The H&B version or the regular version. It is still the exact same TWO requirements.
1) Must have OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or higher.
AND
2) Must have an intel Core2 Duo or better. An Intel Core Duo will not work!!! It has got to be the Intel Core 2 Duo or better.
You can find out both of these by pulling your Apple menu to “About this Mac” and it will show you both.
If your Mac is 2010 or newer you are probably ok, and some as old as 2006 may work if they have OS X 10.6.8 or higher. But do check first before buying. I think Intuit was sort of harsh in cutting off a lot of older Macs that are still in daily use running OSX Tiger, Leopard & Snow Leopard. I’m hearing a lot of reports from people who have a Mac running Snow Leopard on a Core Duo and TT won’t launch.
On to the TurboTax Review:
I’ve used TurboTax Home And Business annually for years & years. It does a better job than my CPA did when I used to hire one for $400 a go. You’ll do better sitting with TurboTax and going through the interview. It will prompt you to dig up some receipts you didn’t realize were important. So you’ll have more write offs, and do a better job with your taxes.
Over time, you will get to know what is important to keep track of during the year, and that will turn out to be another reason that your taxes will be done better… More accurate and cheaper for you. I love how TT can import the tax file from last year which gives you a huge head start. Huge.
The Home and Business version includes Schedule C, and all the tax forms I’ve ever needed to run a business. Your choice of 1 state is included. You can eFile, but why make it easier for the IRS to audit you? Considering the possible tax savings possible by doing it right & taking advantage of the tax rules, the H&B version is worth the extra bucks over the regular TT personal version. The H&B version can do everything the regular TurboTax can do, so you don’t give up anything, just gain the Business extras.
Pro Tip: Print your taxes on paper & mail it in rather than e-file. I hear that this make it less likely your data will be searchable by the IRS, and therefore less likely to be selected for random audit. Can’t say for sure, and the facts may change, but that’s what I hear.
Recommended. Works. Useful & Easy. As easy as taxes can be anyway.
I personally advise *against* subscribing to Intuit’s annual plan. Buying TurboTax via Amazon is cheaper & better. Less trouble, and you get to see the computer requirements in advance.
Buying the software *download* is cheaper because they do not charge sales tax on the download. Amazon can charge sales tax on the CD. However, the CD includes both Mac & PC versions. The Download does not. This TurboTax Home & Business includes a license to use for up to 5 different Tax returns for family members, and you can install on multiple computers if you want.
The ONLY 2 places that I know are authorized to sell TurboTax as a digital download are Intuit & Amazon.com If you see TT for sale elsewhere as a download – it is a pirated copy. Never pay pirates, you don’t know what else they will do with your credit card & billing info, and you don’t know if they altered the software to steal your data, and you don’t want to enrich no-account pirates. It is better to pay the software manufacturer for their work, and better for you not to get ripped off. Ok?
Bottom line:
TurboTax Home & Business has been my go-to tax prep software for many years, and if they continue to do a good job with it, I will continue to buy it for years to come.
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|The only way to do your taxes every year,
I first started using TurboTax in 1984 when I first got a personal computer (what a relic). I tried using H&R Block one year and they were so expensive and hard to work with that I went home and completed my taxes on TurboTax. Each year the software copies all the information from the previous year into the current year tax return. If you are using Quicken it will download all of your information from it as well. If can also retrieve your W2′s and 1099′s if you wish. It tracks all of your deprecations from one year to the next and helps you to determine which type of deprecation is best for your purposes. Each year that I have used TurboTax the program has improved from the previous year. They started including a program called “It’s Deductible” that helps you value correctly any property items that you may have donated to charities. All of this helps to keep you out of trouble with the IRS. The only question is not whether or not to use TurboTax each year, but where can I get the best deal on the software. Don’t let another year go by without using TurboTax yourself.
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|Will order again in 2014!,
I’ve ordered this online from Amazon for several years in a row now. I’ve always had super fast shipping and get to hold the disk in hand instead of trying to save copies of a download file. Best part is it’s cheaper than ordering directly or picking up in retail.
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