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H&R Block Tax Software Premium 2024 PC/Mac (Digital Download) on sale for $42.50 - $5 when you apply code
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H&R Block Tax Software Deluxe 2024 PC/Mac (Digital Download) on sale for $25.99 - $5 when you apply code
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Features (Deluxe):
- Does not include state e-file fee
- Step-by-step Q&A and guidance
- Quickly import your W-2, 1099, 1098, and last year's personal tax return, even from TurboTax and Quicken software
- Itemize deductions with Schedule A
Top Comments
I have no idea how this made front page… This price is mediocre at best…
Once it gets to $15 and below then it may be a slick deal but right now it's just Meh.
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Years ago I used Deluxe for my business without difficulty, but I don't know if any functionality was removed. I would buy the Premium version if it would save a lot of time for the business forms.
If you do not research a product before buying anything you can make bad choices no matter who you choose. Block also lists every form it does but people read marketing that tries to promotes some feature or words like "Freetax" and get drawn in. Just like we know many did when you handed them to Freetax all the times you recommended it while withholding information about costs, upsells and downsides. How is that any different than what FreeTaxUSA, Block or TT does and you do it for no reason unless you get some monetary compensation for being such an advocate for their service.
Notice when I talk about Block where find value I tell everyone about catches and pitfalls to be wary off and to not get sucked to upsells. You just throw them to the wolves at Freetax giving the impression that it a is actually free. FreeTaxUSA then can nickel and dime them to death with all the upsells and fees that only come to light after you sign up. If you are not getting something they are cheating you as well as you have liley helped them generate much revenue to fill their corporate coffers. You fight the man but sending customers form one man to some other man that is just as ready to upsell. You even upsell that man without disclosing all the downsides and again how is that different than what Block or TT does?
If you do not research a product before buying anything you can make bad choices no matter who you choose. Block also lists every form it does but people read marketing that tries to promotes some feature or words like "Freetax" and get drawn in. Just like we know many did when you handed them to Freetax all the times you recommended it while withholding information about costs, upsells and downsides. How is that any different than what FreeTaxUSA, Block or TT does and you do it for no reason unless you get some monetary compensation for being such an advocate for their service.
Notice when I talk about Block where find value I tell everyone about catches and pitfalls to be wary off and to not get sucked to upsells. You just throw them to the wolves at Freetax giving the impression that it a is actually free. FreeTaxUSA then can nickel and dime them to death with all the upsells and fees that only come to light after you sign up. If you are not getting something they are cheating you as well as you have liley helped them generate much revenue to fill their corporate coffers. You fight the man but sending customers form one man to some other man that is just as ready to upsell. You even upsell that man without disclosing all the downsides and again how is that different what Block or TT does?
And who knows what the free tax services do with your data selling it to cover their costs and make money.
Years ago I used Deluxe for my business without difficulty, but I don't know if any functionality was removed. I would buy the Premium version if it would save a lot of time for the business forms.
You do not fill numbers in on the form but in the guidance sections. If you do a W2 manually or a 1099 a box or section in the guidance will pop up that looks much like the form you have and you plug in. Same for things like you home office, business mileage, rental property , depreciation etc., they will be done in a section with guidance not on a form. You do have the alternative in some sections to import versus manual entry from financial institutions for things like capital gains, W2s etc. if whoever has the form is in partnership with Block.
Rarely or never will you have to enter directly on a form. The software does not work that way and takes you through sections for the different income, expenses, deductions , credits etc.. Once in great while I have had some error or quirk and will go to a form to adjust just for speed and ease. Clicking through all the steps in the guidance can be tedious sometimes and I find that easier. When I do do that there are times it will not let you adjust on a form and will take you back to the guided entry to minimize nay possible error or oversight.
The software is designed to keep you off the forms unless absolutely necessary. They are not bareboning Deluxe and making you have to plug in spreadsheet style on a form. It does my quite complex return with relative ease. I have no idea what Premium or Basc offers as to extra guidance but I can tell you for sure I do not or never have missed anything. All the actions are pretty self explanatory. The only time I struggle is when I may be researching if I am eligible for some credit or deduction but I usually do that outside of Block anyway. It will ask you to pick what income and deductions are involved in you tax case and explain them someway to help determine if you are eligible
If you do use any of the importing of forms features I advise to not count on the downloaded entries as they do come through wrong on occasion. I always check anyway and sometimes I find it just faster to manually enter.
I also advise to not look for total ease as knowing about your taxes is very important and hoping to click a button to get them done can be dangerous with the bonus that it will not teach you anything about your tax situation. I'm sure not the brightest but after some few years of using Block and paying some attention I can quickly skip through much of the guidance and help and can actually get my taxes done quicker without all the handholding. At the end I do look at the actual forms view to make sure everything looks good and on occasion have found a duplicate or error. It does also run an error check at the end and will flag anything that looks off, wrong or duplicated and take you the the section ro form to verify.
And who knows what the free tax services do with your data selling it to cover their costs and make money.
I also kind of despise most web apps anyway as they constantly change how things are done. Google offers services that I would really love but the change, add or take away some feature or process for doing things so much it becomes tedious and frustrating. I do not want to play those games at tax time.
In the past I used TurboTax Deluxe to do that, and it's "holding my hands" through the whole process. If freetaxusa can do that too, I'll switch.
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Aso I can do Schedule C and E in TurboTax Deluxe. Can I do these schedules In HRB deluxe?
If you do not research a product before buying anything you can make bad choices no matter who you choose. Block also lists every form it does but people read marketing that tries to promotes some feature or words like "Freetax" and get drawn in. Just like we know many did when you handed them to Freetax all the times you recommended it while withholding information about costs, upsells and downsides. How is that any different than what FreeTaxUSA, Block or TT does and you do it for no reason unless you get some monetary compensation for being such an advocate for their service.
Notice when I talk about Block where find value I tell everyone about catches and pitfalls to be wary off and to not get sucked to upsells. You just throw them to the wolves at Freetax giving the impression that it a is actually free. FreeTaxUSA then can nickel and dime them to death with all the upsells and fees that only come to light after you sign up. If you are not getting something they are cheating you as well as you have liley helped them generate much revenue to fill their corporate coffers. You fight the man but sending customers form one man to some other man that is just as ready to upsell. You even upsell that man without disclosing all the downsides and again how is that different than what Block or TT does?
E-File directly to the IRS.
Federal $0
State $14.99
I am also more than happy to talk about the pros and cons of all the software. I've mentioned many times that Block/TT Deluxe does essentially everything premiere does. I've talked about online vs download software. I've also mentioned the online free and cheap alternatives. My preference for the non-Block/Intuit options is that they aren't the ones lobbying congress to keep our tax code complicated. They don't have misleading advertising (IMO). They don't use dark patterns in their software. They don't constantly try to upsell you. But hey, we're all entitled to our opinions - even you.
If the name bothers you, there's always OLT.com (OnLineTaxes) and Cash App Taxes - maybe those names make you feel better. Or maybe the alternate site for FTUSA - TaxHawk.com.
I am also more than happy to talk about the pros and cons of all the software. I've mentioned many times that Block/TT Deluxe does essentially everything premiere does. I've talked about online vs download software. I've also mentioned the online free and cheap alternatives. My preference for the non-Block/Intuit options is that they aren't the ones lobbying congress to keep our tax code complicated. They don't have misleading advertising (IMO). They don't use dark patterns in their software. They don't constantly try to upsell you. But hey, we're all entitled to our opinions - even you.
TaxFreeUSA(TaxHawk Inc.) also lobbied to get certified by the IRS as free preparer yet upsell people at the last minute even if you go in through the government website as you can see in their reviews. Now we have a bad agency teaming up with a questionable corporation to help with surprise fees. See the reviews below it is common practice with them and there is no way to get your data off their site so you can try somewhere else. The company is so shady it uses three different names I assume to hide from reviews and again I wonder why you always are in every tax thread of any kind kind trying to push people into their clutches. You send people to them again by sending them to TaxHawk. Again I have to ask, do you have some involvement with that corporation?
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You have very basic misunderstanding of tax law. It is implemented by Congress and that who has made the complexity. As we have seen the last few years they play around with it to the last minute and to the point that it has caused great delays in people getting their tax refunds. Software companies can not code new overly complex code into the software that already contains tons of complex tax code created by Congress and that has us waiting to the very last minute to get taxes done.
There is another problem as the IRS is incompetent, corrupt and insecure. They have computer systems so antiquated they still run on floppy disk even after billion dollar upgrades that they do not even know which computers contain our returns or data and here you are supposing they can fill them out. Even their own employees are tax cheats yet t get to keep their jobs. IRS agents regular peruse and leak tax information and you want them more involved in my life. It is an agency that has seized people businesses, homes and bank accounts for errors they made and you act like they are going to come in as some savior for you as I assume you want your taxes done like you order a sandwich with the press of a button.
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