TurboTax Deluxe Federal + State 2007

- Not for stock day traders and Mac users! Worse than last years.
If you're a day trader (and a Mac user), you might be better off filling out your tax return by hand. Something changed this year in TurboTax that doesn't allow you to quickly input your stock transactions. And TurboTax seems to run alot slower on the Mac.

Unlike last year's where you could skip the "Easy Step" and go straight to the forms to directly input your transactions, now you are forced to either use the excruciatingly slow "Easy Step" or use the so-called Capital Gains "Speed Entry" Worksheet. And if you've had hundreds of transactions, "Easy Step" would require you to spend a few days to input all of them. And if you decide to use the Speed Entry Worksheet, you'd have to input each transaction in its entirety, not just the cost basis that your financial institution forgets to send you.

Note that this CD comes with both the Mac and PC version. I tried them both and it seems the PC version is a little faster when it comes to editing stock transactions.

Since the deadline's just a few days away, I'll just suck it up and use TurboTax's "Easy Step" to edit all of my transactions. Too bad I can't just used TurboTax 2006 for 2007's tax return.

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- Turbo Tax
I love Turbo Tax! It takes me through doing my taxes one step at a time. Definately one of my favorite products!

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- did my pretty simple return
My return is very simple, one job with a mortgage, 401K, real estate taxes. Not very complicated.

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- great product
I use this every year and so far I have reason to switch. Plus if you use this product in back to back years it fills in all you information from memory. My tax situation is not all that complex so I can't say if it really gets all the deductions or not nevertheless I think its a quality product.

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- WILL DO THE JOB
DO NOT TRY TO E-FILE. YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR MONEY BACK, MAIL YOUR RETURN