Jo

Intuit Screws Up, And H&R Block Will Profit

I can't compare this year's Turbo Tax and Taxcut, but the one year (2006) I was forced to use Taxcut, it was atrociously primitive compared to TT and would not allow downloading from financial institutions into your tax form. If this single restriction remains in Taxcut, that would be enough to keep me from using it. I'm not wild about the TT interface this year, but I'm used to the way TT thinks, and can get where I want, albeit it's a bit more cumbersome this year.

As far as the "people" that H&R Block have, my sister had to use them last year when she hired an accountant to do her taxes first. He made mistakes and manufactured figures (creative accounting not authorized by her), to the point that she took her CPA-produced form to Block. They continued the process of making mistakes, and my sister had to literally stand over the preparer's shoulder and tell her what to enter into her own software. After several cycles of this, she was really at her wits end, but thinks she ultimately got an error free form to submit. I don't fully trust anyone to do my taxes except myself, although I would go to an accountant for questions of interpretation.