| | |  | Home Business Software | Home » » TurboTax Federal + State Home and Business 2006 Win/Mac [OLDER VERSION] | | | | | | | Description: | | TurboTax Home & Business 2006 gives you the guidance you need to simplify your Schedule C and maximize your tax savings. Includes everything you need for your self-employment and personal income taxes. Expanded interview guides you step-by-step through Schedule C, categorizing business expenses, home office deductions, depreciation and more. Includes State Edition. Includes official IRS business publications and expert video tax advice Audit alerts for business -- flag deductions and tax situations that may trigger an IRS audit Expanded interview guides you step-by-step through Schedule C, categorizing business expenses, home office deductions, depreciation and more Deduction Maximizer shows you how to qualify for over 350 deductions, from mortgage interest, to child-care expenses and more -- so there are no lost opportunities TurboTax transfers and lets you edit information from your last year's TurboTax return so you don't have to enter it again | | | Features: | |
• Tax preparation software guides you through your return step-by-step for a fast and accurate refund
• Includes everything you need for your self-employment and personal income taxes
• Helps you complete Schedule C Forms, categorize business expenses, and calculate home office deductions, depreciation and more
• Additional expense deduction examples shows you even more ways to maximize your deductions; included Depreciation Expert for Business automatically determines the most advantageous depreciation method
• Includes one free state download to help you handle deductions specific to your state of residence, a business tax library with official IRS publications and expert video tax advice, and a tax guide specially designed for small businesses
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 85 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Good Solid Software-research your choice thoroughlyJan 06, 2007
By T. Matteson
"Toastmatt"
When working with this package, I find it well written and very solid. It's a well built package to do your taxes.
I used 2005 Premier and it appears that they split that product into 2...Premier for 2006 and 2006 Home and Business. I feel that I need to upgrade to Home and Business for the same functionality that was in Premier last year (Schedule C).
I also found that Win 98 was not supported in the list of OS. Worked last year, but, not supported this year.
All in all - good tax package-make sure you need all the features you purchase. Marketing has made it more difficult this year to find the package you truly need.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Terrific product, great value, time saverJan 15, 2007
By Larry
"Fellow Traveler"
I've used TurboTax (or MacInTax in the early days) for over 15 years to do my taxes. Most of those years included some form of business income, requiring a Schedule C to be filed. TurboTax Home and Business is a terrific product, taking you from gathering documents, to educating you about the tax code and recent changes, to data entry, to electronic filing. It's the whole package.
One year, we used an accountant to prepare our taxes, because of a particularly unusual income situation with complicated tax implications. In the amount of time that it took me to write down by hand all the information requested on the accountant's form, I could have typed everything into TurboTax and had my taxes filed. Plus, TurboTax is less than the $250 average tax preparation bill. And that year I really missed the tax education I usually get by going step-by-step through TurboTax, giving me tax saving strategies for the following year.
Faster. Cheaper. Plus tax strategy education. That's why I'm using TurboTax again this year.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
I did it!Mar 08, 2007
By J. Livingston
"who knew nothing about her own taxes!"
This was the first time I have ever done my taxes alone. My precious husband who passed away two years ago always handled that job.....even my business things as a published writer of Women's fiction books. The past two years I had a tax accountant do them. I ended up paying way more taxes than I know I should, plus the big bucks he charged me for his services. I figured I could do that well by myself so bought TurboTax this year. And I DID IT! Once I got all my figures assembled, it was quite easy, especially for a first-timer. Next year is going to be even easier now that I am familiar with the way TurboTax is set up. Thanks, Amazon and TurboTax!
Signed: A Widow in Kansas
21 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Stay away from TurboTax!Feb 21, 2007
By Burak Powers
"Curious Learner"
If your tax return goes through without a problem, TurboTax might be okay. Yet, if there is a problem, TurboTax's approach to customer service is to give you the run-around ad nauseam until you get the message that TurboTax does not care no matter how serious the situation is. Here is the synopsis of my situation:
I received a letter from IRS recently that it has never received my 2003 tax returns. Of course, I was very surprised and concerned. After some investigation, it turns out that my 2003 returns that I had filed via TurboTax never reached IRS either because of my fault or TurboTax's. So I set out to write a letter to IRS explaining the situation with a hard-copy of my 2003 returns that I printed from my past returns section of TurboTax. The IRS agent told me that I would also need an email/letter from TurboTax stating the date stamp on the initial filing of my return to prove that it was a genuine mistake so that I would hopefully not be charged the approximately $5,400 late penalties that IRS was asking for.
I had five phone conversations (in the past ten days) with TurboTax customer service representatives, each lasting at least two hours (I am documenting the reference numbers below to illustrate my claims). At the end, it became clear to me TurboTax was not willing to give me any documentation on my initial filing, leaving me scratching my head thinking what to do. I am now contacting FTC and BBB, as well as IRS, communicating TurboTax's refusal to help one of its customers.
In short, I had used TurboTax a number of times, but after this experience (seeing how significant the downside is of a possible glitch in the filing system and seeing how TurboTax is not willing to help its customer whatsoever), I have vowed never to use TurboTax or any other Intuit product again.
Aforementioned Reference Numbers
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070214-013263
070214-013429
070214-014753
070214-015133
070221-008866
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 May be my last time with Turbo TaxMay 21, 2007
By P. L. Spencer
I have used Turbo Tax for the last 6 or 7 years and have always thought it was okay, better than hunting down the forms and inexpensive. Anyone with a bit of tax knowledge, straight forward situations could use it and it has been handy for certain tax updates.
I had to buy this more expensive version to get both the Schedule C and 1040 info that used to be on the Deluxe. Not only did I pay more (although Amazon was cheaper than the Turbo Tax home site by $20.00),it was not nearly as straight forward to use and did not catch in the error check a couple of descrepancies I had entered.If I was not used to preparing my own taxes I would have missed them. It is useful to pull the prior year forward and be able to compare with the current year's data side by side.
In this version it was also difficult to separate out my 2007 self employment estimated taxes from my projected employee income so I kept getting ridiculous estimated tax deposits. I finally said forget it and figured it out manually.Perhaps the standard home version is easier. This one might have been if I only had self employment but the combo of different kinds of activity threw the software off more than in previous years.I do not need to use the state tax part of the module so have no opinion there.
Turbo certainly puts a lot of energy into selling "extras" though.It's annoying to have to actively keep saying no I don't want something because the default is to buy it. Don't count on any support without paying extra.
If I could I would have given this software 2.5 stars slightly better than 2. I'm not so sure what I'll do next year. Maybe I'll just download forms from the IRS site.
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