[olug] Tax Software Opinions

[Marc Mapes]

I always used a tax service before. But then I started to see all the stuff
they were missing vs. Turbo Tax
Last year my wife went to HR Block and they ran everything through. It was
about 3500.00 we would get back through them. I told her to let me run it
through Turbo Tax at home and low and behold HR Block missed about 2 grand
that ended up in our pockets since we went that route.

Marc

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> I always do the free on-line stuff before I go see my tax guy.  It helps
> remind me of anything I may have forgot otherwise, plus it lets me see if
> I'm able to get to a close dollar amount to what they get to.
>
> I've been going to the same guy for the past 10 years, and each year his
> refund is anywhere from $600 to $1500 more than what I was getting on-line.
>  (My first year I had estimated we'd owe $1500, and we walked out with a
> $50
> refund after his $150 price.)
>
> Sure, they cost more than the $50-75 software options, but they've found
> 10x
> that in many situations.  Money left with the IRS is money I lost. :-(
>
> Just my $0.02 worth...
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 22:45, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Every year I think this comes up.  This year I am considering abandoning
> my
> > usual
> > tax guy.  So the question is what's everyone else doing?
> >
> >   - Keeping a tax guy
> >   - Found some biatching linux tax software
> >   - Running XYZ in wine, works great (e.g. turbotax,  taxact)
> >   - I'm scared of wine, I use a VM for tax software (e.g. turbotax,
> >   taxact)
> >   - I'm not afraid of anything, tax online and who (e.g. tax slayer,
> >   taxact)
> >
> > Chad, CISSP
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