I too have a HSA that I have to input into my tax forms, and every year with TurboTax I have to dig around for the appropriate box/form.

TaxAct found it right away, which was nice. This year however, I’m going to have someone do my taxes (I always end up owing more than I think I should).

I realize HSAs are unusual, especially the way we do it – we deposit after-tax money into the account instead of having an employer deposit it pre-tax (goes along with unemployment and COBRA insurance) – but come on, HSAs have been around long enough for a premium tax software company to get their act together!!!

Simple and easy to use…great program.

It almost makes doing taxes fun…is that possible?!

H&R does offer a free federal edition & E-File. You can find it here http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/p.....ductId=201

Thanks for the tale of the tape.

And to the early filers–This year may be the one time it does not pay as our illustrious legislators are still in Washington DC trying to figure out how to help us with the tax code.

-steve who is guarding his wallet

I felt the interview process in Turbo Tax is better. It does much better job of allowing you to completely skip items that don’t pertain to your situation, where as Tax Cut has you clicking through a lot of it. I can get through my taxes a little bit faster with Turbo Tax then I can Tax Cut as a result. Turbo Tax also allows you to download and process a school-district tax form, where as Tax Cut doesn’t have any support for this as far as I can tell.

On the flip-side, Tax Cut seems to be a better deal for the money. It’s always 10 to 15 dollars cheaper and it has been throwing in the free federal e-file for awhile now, I believe the free e-file was new to Turbo Tax this year. I have also received a free DVD (of my choosing – up to a $20 value) from my local Best Buy for the past two years when I bought Tax Cut, which makes the price a little easier to stomach.

I was relieved to see that both Tax Cut and Turbo Tax gave me the exact same results though – my Federal and State refunds were the exact same w/ both products.

It may be “only” Feb 9th, but you yourself have already filed. I think these sorts of things come out in rapid succession because they’re time sensitive, and everyone wants to publish their views while they’re still relevant.

As an aside, if you want to avoid overload in the future, you should just stop reading all of those other sites.

I have used the free Turbotax in the past since my AGI was low enough. This year I piggybacked on a remaining free e-file on my father-in-law’s copy of Taxcut (after I had done everything in the online version of Turbotax first before I realized my AGI was too high). I found the online Turbotax to be sometimes buggy about saving and loading, and I found some of the interview questions to be less obtuse in Taxcut. Similarly though, some questions were better laid out in Turbotax. The main problem with Turbotax online version was that I never figured out the way to jump to the middle or end of a topic, so I had to scroll through 20 questions I had already answered to fix the thing that was messed up.