Tag: TURBOTAX

It's not been a great week for Turbo Tax. First it comes out that there's a security flaw allowing uses to see tax returns uploaded by other customers. And now parent company Intuit is confirming that all the last minute filings on Tuesday night bogged down the company's online tax filing system, leaving some customers unable to e-file. Intuit says the problems with their servers have been fixed, ...

A Nebraska woman recently found a glitch in the way Turbo Tax lets users file their taxes over the web. By trying to access information she had filed in previous years, she found a way to access data three other users had previously uploaded. Each of those other users had the same last name as the woman, but different first initials. The information included social security numbers and bank ...

We've seen a couple round-up reviews of tax software, and while features and ease-of-use matter, a question that shouldn't be neglected is: which will give me the biggest refund? AP's Ashley Heher pitted H&R Block's TaxCut, Intuit's TurboTax, and 2nd Story's TaxAct against eachother to find out. She found that while TaxCut and TurboTax had similar results $600 versus $588, TaxAct, ...

A couple weeks back PC World did a round-up review of three of the latest tax preparation software offerings. This week they're back with revews of five different web-based tax prep packages: Intuit's TurboTax, CCH's CompleteTax, H&R Block's TaxCut, 2nd Story's TaxAct, and Petz' TaxBrain. They break down like this, with total costs including both federal and state returns: TurboTax.com: ...