Ugh...taxes

[singingwendy]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 11:57pm

They're done! They're finished and filed. And not through the HR Block site.

After a few more frustrating dealings with HR Block's online "customer service"...including them wanting me to print out my return to check my complaint (and only charging me $16 more dollars) I gave up and did my return with Turbo Tax.
Yes, it cost me more.....almost 3 times as much as the HR Block program...but my refund ended up being almost 3 times as much as the first program.

So..thanks to everyone who suggested Turbo Tax. It rocks!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:46pm

singingwendy, glad it worked out for you, but this year was the first in seven years of filing with Turbotax that their program gave me big problems.

I managed to get everything filed, and I don't owe, but I think I'm going to have to amend my returns and do it by hand which is a royal pain and may have to make a trip to the IRS office for a consultation.

For some reason when I filed my federal return today the stupid program insisted that I file a federal extension form and pay $27 before it would let me file--but you don't need an extension on the due date. Bizarre. And I didn't owe on my federal return, on that one I was getting a lot back so there was some kind of bug in the program there. It kind of corrected itself by giving me back the $27 on the federal return along with my refund, but it shouldn't have done that.

I'm disillusioned with Turbotax. Anyone got a better tax software?