Strengths:Easy/simple interface ; Simple to understand language; VERY thorough on walking you through the process
Weaknesses:Price; Tax guidance and advice can be limited
Posted Feb 7, 2008 - Overall a great product that I would recommend for anyone who is willing or wanting to do their own taxes - this makes it easy! The questions are very easy guides; however, there are many times you'll encounter a question where you may not be sure if it applies to you or not - at those times, the guidance can be limited and you will be left to either do more research, or read the one to two line blurb in TurboTax and take your best guess.
The software walks you through forms and questions with a great deal of thoroughness to ensure you have answered (and double-checked!) everything. That process cna be a bit tedious if you need to modify or change one number that happens to be in the middle of one of those series of 30 questions as the only "easy" way to reach it is to go through 15 questions, change the number, and then go through the remaining 15 questions until you are back at the main menu.
As far as Premier vs. Deluxe vs. Basic; for most individuals - I would recommend the lowest level that includes "ItsDeductible" and the State download (DELUXE EDITION). Above that, it's likely only needed if you have a significant number of complicated stock sales, were self-employed at any point and time, or have a significant number of investments spread over many different areas.
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