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Posted by John A. Weeks III on January 30, 2007, 10:46 pm
> Hi, I am thinking about using TurboTax online because I get it for free
> as a State Farm customer. Anybody have any experience with this
> service?
Please fill me in. I have had State Farm insurance for over 20
years, and I haven't heard about the a deal with Turbo Tax. I
have used Turbo Tax on-line version the past 2 years, and found
that it works very well. It even did a schedule C without any
issues.
-john-
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Posted by Scott on January 31, 2007, 5:03 am
>
> Please fill me in. I have had State Farm insurance for over 20
> years, and I haven't heard about the a deal with Turbo Tax. I
> have used Turbo Tax on-line version the past 2 years, and found
> that it works very well. It even did a schedule C without any
> issues.
>
> -john-
Here is the link: http://www.statefarm.com/main/tax2006.asp
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Posted by Will Trice on January 31, 2007, 6:54 pm
Scott wrote:
> Hi, I am thinking about using TurboTax online because I get it for free
> as a State Farm customer. Anybody have any experience with this service?
> I am a little wary of uploading all my personal information to them.
I started using TurboTax online two years ago when it was offered free
from the IRS website. They still let me use it free, so I assume it is
available directly from them? Maybe not. In any case, the first year I
used it, I posted here about two bugs (and possibly a third) that I
found in their software. I reported those bugs to Intuit. One of them
had not been fixed last year - TurboTax online will not allow you to
amortize the cost of refinancing a rental property. As a result, after
completing the form online, I printed it out the last two years, filled
in the one line by hand, and mailed it in. Of course, this means I
didn't pay the efile fee either...
As to uploading personal info, that's always a real concern. For me, I
get some benefit for my risk, making it worth it to me. Besides, your
info is available in many places already.
YMMV,
-Will
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Posted by rick++ on February 1, 2007, 12:23 pm
> As to uploading personal info, that's always a real concern. For me, I
> get some benefit for my risk, making it worth it to me. Besides, your
> info is available in many places already.
I only know of one place where there is my name, DOB, address, SS#,
income, plus every bank and stock account that made or lost money
last year. And it isnt my records (I wish I was so organized).
I could find some of these in the on-disk file of a tax program I use
with a simple data-mining program, so I've wondered about net
security too. I keep fake numbers on my local computer version,
except for the five minutes I am printing the return.
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Posted by on February 16, 2007, 4:14 pm
My suggestion is to not use turbo tax online. I have just gone through
an annoying day of phone calls because I found a bug in their software
where they were rounding share prices in a stock option sale to the
nearest dollar. Well, you don't do that with share prices as it screws
up the calculation. Unfortunately I noticed it after the e-file was
accepted and now I have to file an amended return. Turbo Tax said they
were working on the bug and it was a known issue but they do nothing
to inform users that are possibly affected. Total BS. They also said
that everything was fine and they told the IRS so I could just let it
go. Wrong! Morons. The IRS requires an amended return, I contacted
them myself. Turbo Tax is a joke of an organization. Bad software
design (only affected online, not retail), they offered no assistance
in resolving the matter and they don't even inform you that your
return may be screwed up. Stick with paper, a pencil and a calculator.
The only positive I can say is finally after 4 calls I got a refund
for the money I spent on their bad software.
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