Cost Comparison of Tax Software for U.S. Tax Payers.

Discussion in 'General Business' started by websiteideas, Apr 11, 2006.

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    Please share what software you are using this year and how much it cost you for your state and federal returns. And, please share what it cost to efile.
     
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    Has anyone tried TaxAct? Is it really free or is there some catch?
     
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    After becoming disenchanted with the very high cost of TurboTax and TaxCut software and the unexplainable $20 per e-File pop for Federal and State returns, I did a search and found TaxAct. Web reviews on TaxAct are great and the cost is LOW. For personal tax submission, the Web interface works fine and the total cost was about $16. This is less than one forth of the rip-off software packages. Pays to shop around. PS, with TaxAct you can only import last year data from TaxAct. They do offer data storage for about $5 for three ears. Thanks
     
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    TaxAct worked fine for me and the total cost for State and Fed was about $16. Their add is honest...you get Fed for free but pay for State and State eFile. For personal tax prep, I think it's the way to go.
     
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    You should not pay more then $30 to file your tax return using any software
     
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    So, that's two votes for TaxAct then. Importing data from last year is a nice feature to have indeed... Has anyone found TaxAct to have any features left out that they can't live without? $16 is quite a bit cheaper than Turbo Tax which can cost as much at $75 for the full featured version.
     
    websiteideas, Mar 15, 2008 IP