Editorial Review: Amazon.com Product Description
TaxCut Standard 2002 offers many new features, like nine-year tax preview, Home Office Assistant, Retirement Savings Enhancer, and free H&R Block financial planners. In addition, you still get your favorite standard features such as auto entry and financial data imports. H&R Block financial planners assist you in determining if your investments support your financial goals and if your asset allocation matches your risk tolerance. You can also create what-if scenarios for future savings. Nine-year tax preview shows you all the ways that the tax legislation of 2001 will affect you now and in the future. Home Office Assistant walks you through a series of questions to see if your home office qualifies for tax purposes. Retirement Savings Enhancer provides ways to increase your tax and retirement savings to ensure you get the most out of your 401(k). The improved Error Check feature catches mistakes or omissions that could cost you money or flag your return for an IRS audit. Entry Manager tracks where your data originates, guides you to related forms, and itemizes your entries. It also allows you to flag entries as tentative, so you can go back and review them before you finalize your return. The H&R Block tax law assistant helps you understand the implications of changing tax laws, provides information about how the changes affect your taxes, and ensures you get the maximum tax benefit possible under the new laws. Auto entry automatically imports W-2 and 1099 information from participating employers and financial institutions. Auto entry saves you valuable time and prevents costly data entry errors, and makes it easy to deal with multiple W-2s.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Seriously buggy---may cost me big time
Date: 2004-03-21 - 
Comment: This software has a serious bug that may cost me a great deal of money.My wife lived in Illinois for a year while I lived most of the year in California. In such a case, it is imperative that we file our Federal returns separately, otherwise Illinois will tax us on the money I earned in California! TaxCut not only didn't warn us of this, it incorrectly computed the Illinois taxes using the part-year resident form. This was in spite of my having specified that my wife was in Illinois the whole year, and in spite of it being very plainly stated on the Illinois form that under such circumstances, a couple filing jointly could not use the form! Unfortunately, I allowed TaxCut to e-file my return before I checked the state returns. Now I have to file an amendment. I was also unable to get any help from TaxCut's customer support to stop the e-filing before it went through. I'll never use their software again.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: My first tax-prep software
Date: 2003-06-18 - 
Comment: I can't really compare this software to others, but I can say that it did a pretty good job for me. Just spend about 20 minutes answering questions in the beginning, and it will do most of the rest. My tax return consisted of several jobs for both my wife and I, working in two different states, mutual fund and stock purchases and sales, interest and capital gains income, and a mortgage. I thought this would make my return to complicated for a comuter software, but everything I needed was here. Nad if for some reason you don't like what it does, you can manually change any entry. However, if you manually change entries, you will not be allowed to e-file.
I installed this on my desktop, and again on my laptop to do some work when my wife was working on the desktop. This worked fine. But there is no clear way of letting one computer know what you did on another computer, so multiple installations are for the most part useless.
The one thing I don't like is that it seemed like procrastinators are rewarded for their laziness in that this software gets cheaper the nearer you get to April 15th, to the point where it become free after rebate.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Good alternative to Turbotax
Date: 2003-06-17 -
Comment: I bought Taxcut this tax season because I was not interested in having Intuit's intrusive product activation features placed on my computer. I found Taxcut to be a decent alternative to Turbotax. (Is there any reason, though, why we have to put up with H&R Block putting Earthlink advertising on my computer?)
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: -1 stars would be even more accurate! >:(
Date: 2003-04-20 -
Comment: i had an almost identical experience as the person from Oregon...when using this software. I want to voice my utter disgust with this product.After corrupting my tax data file TWICE with this product, and getting nothing from their technical support except "start over", and getting no idea as to why my submissions were rejected, i ended up manually printing out each form (which in itself wasn't straightforward), and sending snail-mail, TWO days after the tax deadline. The TaxCut people quickly agreed to refund me my $..., though thats zero consolation considering the money i'm going to lose from filing late with the IRS!! i assure you, no matter how cheap they sell TaxCut, it is simply not worth it! it should not be trusted to handle official government documents. period.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: no problems
Date: 2003-04-18 -
Comment: first time to use tax software - this program installed/ran fine on windows 2000 - I had to use the auto-update feature once, and it worked smoothlyOther than 1 401k-related item the help seemed vague about, filing my 1040 with this software was a piece of cake.
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