I am very concerned about where the info with our SS#s is….does anybody know anything about this?????

I had my return rejected 3 times because they insist on including middle inital and suffix of all qualifying children on Schedule EIC. They do not include columns for these, and make you enter the data as part of the first name and last name fields. After trying every possilbe scenario and combination, including not entering the middle and suffix, I finally gave up. I’d rather not waste any more time on a poorly designed, poorly executed program. Whoever designed the software was too lazy to add to extra columns and map out the fields.

And get this, the software also defaults a choice on the EIC that pegs your children as permanently disabled, which will also trigger an automatic rejection. Way to go guys! If I could find a place to complain, (which you cant because they hid it, another sign of horrible sw and backing company), I would have told them exactly what I thought. As you can tell, it would be less than flattering.

Back to TurboTax yet again. It’s cheaper than going to a professional, and AT LEAST IT WORKS!!!

Screw FREEFILEFILLABLEFORMS.COM !!!!!!

I just bought my first house this year so needed to included all the property tax, mortgage interest and PMI premiums. I also had capital gains, interest, HSA distributions – a more complicated situation than ever before. Despite that, I decided I’d try to do my own taxes

I found their site (which I’ve used for several years) works well and has always given me accurate results. At the end, the printed form was the full 1040.

http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/p.....oductId=31 (top left product)

That’s crazy! This has to be some kind of illegal. The money doesn’t belong to the state it belongs to you.

Oh this is funny. This is from an article:

“The state also will make good on debt payments — a top priority, since defaulting on bonds would preclude the state from borrowing money in the future.”

If a tax refund is really just an overpayment of taxes that the government owes back to you…doesn’t that make it a “debt payment” on their end? This is why I put high numbers on my W-4 and state form (G-4 for me). Never let anyone borrow any money that you think you may need some time soon.

Any state returns filed before Feb. 1st will receive their refunds. I planned on filing on January 30th and completed most of my return then but waited before filing to have time to error check it. Now I won’t get my state refund that I need to pay my ridiculous property tax bill.

I used the TurboTax online version last year and this year. But beware of the bugs in the system this year. This year if you try to prepare a state return and not e-file with them, they will try to charge you $30 just for the preparation. They also give you the option of filling out forms to make an amended return for previous years, but if you do that it will give you an error message that you can’t e-file this years federal return (amended returns have to be mailed and TT mistakenly lumps everything together). They also had a bug were the error check was stuck in a continuous loop if you had more than one employee expenses form. So basically, after taking out all the time to fill out all these forms I had to delete my 2007 amended return for Federal and state, delete my state return, and delete all the forms I couldn’t use anyway (not enough medical or employment expenses to qualify) before I could finally e-file my federal return for free.

And then I still had to call up the IRS and wait 15 minutes to find out my PIN number that I used to e-file last year.

TurboTax is way way overpriced. By the time you file state and federal, you’re looking at 60 bucks.