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TaxCut 2004 Complete Home & Business [Old Version] | ![TaxCut 2004 Complete Home & Business [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414GXB09SDL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: H&R Block
Category: Software
List Price: $69.95
Buy New: $14.99
You Save: $54.96 (79%)
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 4660
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 1.5
MPN: 1116600-04
Model: 1116600-04
UPC: 735290101303
EAN: 0735290101303
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Quickly and easily complete business and personal tax returns | | • | Advice on depreciation, expense deductions, and other business considerations | | • | Pros and cons of potential home-office deductions; industry-specific business tax tips | | • | Improved Schedule C interview; all forms needed to complete Federal tax return |
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Product Description
TaxCut Complete Home & Business includes two software programs with everything you need to file your personal and business tax returns. With customized tools and advice specifically designed for the small business owner and an improved Schedule C interview, TaxCut Complete Home & Business offers a comprehensive tax solution. Business Tax Interview - Includes additional help and guidance to make preparing your business return easier. Accounting Method Assistant - Helps you select the best accounting method for your new business. Free H&R Block Ask A Tax Advisor After Rebate - Get live expert tax advice online or by phone from a trained H&R Block tax professional when you purchase the Ask A Tax Advisor option within the program. You'll pay just $19.95 per session and receive one free session after mail-in rebate. 1099-MISC / W-2 Reporter and Preparer - Saves you time and money by printing our W-2s and 1099-MISC forms for employees and contractors and all the associated IRS reports. Home Ownership & Rental Tools and Advice - Understand how home ownership and rental property can affect your taxes
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 No one likes to do taxes October 25, 2005
E. Dowling
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read the reviews on all the Tax software. All I can say is that no one seem to have anything nice to say about any of them. I think that people are so upset when there doing there taxes that they cant say anything good about anything. I have always used Turbo tax but was thinking about switching to tax cut. I just dont think that its going to make it more easier.
 This software is the worst that I have ever used! September 24, 2005
D. Wells (Roseville, CA)
It's funny, I'm actually a CPA who specializes in tax compliance. I usually use Lacerte software from Intuit, but I moved and had to finish my partnership at home. I bought TaxCut, and I figured that it would be fine since I'm familiar with taxes. I was wrong, it was full of problems, very difficult to navigate your way around. The partners capital didn't generate to the K-1's correctly. I finally got it all worked out, but it was a pain, especially for an easy partnership. Anyway, I'll be going to TurboTax for everything next year. They have always been better to me.
Execrable April 7, 2005
Bill Clay (Somerville, NJ USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I installed and ran this software, I was told the "Interview was missing" for my 1120S. That's nice. It immediately reminded me of when I installed Doom 3 and was told "3D Rendering Engine Missing," or when I bought Microsoft Word and got the message "Fonts and Printer Drivers Missing."
I did what Tax Cut told me to do to connect and update my forms and the stupid thing kept hanging at 4% of download. Maybe they were having server trouble, but I'm not a patient man, especially when I have all my forms and files laid out and I'm ready to do my taxes NOW.
So I went and got TurboTax. The difference was night and day. TurboTax is a well-designed, highly polished and refined product. It updated to the current version with no problems. By contrast, from the moment that first install dialog popped up, Tax Cut for business reeked of shoddiness, as if it were rushed out the door. (Even the dialog boxes looked unprofessional and strangely misaligned.)
I used Tax Cut in 2002 and 2003 but after this experience I never will again. Maybe the guts--the tax code itself--are a bit more robust than TurboTax, but if I can't get the thing to work at all then what difference does it make? The finer points of deductions are not a great concern to me. If they were, I'd have an accountant. Come tax time, I just want a program that works. TurboTax worked. Tax Cut didn't.
Possibly the worst business tax software ever written March 28, 2005
Pulsar77
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the second year I have used TaxCut for both my personal and small business returns. I switched from TurboTax when they started using their copy protection stuff that seemed to give every user a nightmare. Well, all I can say is, there must be two totally different software development teams working on TaxCut programs, because, while TaxCut personal is a fine program, TaxCut for business is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!
Where do I start? First, it cannot even import data from files the 2003 version created. When I tried, it hung every time, eventually forcing me to re-install the entire software package. The error log it generated showed dozens of import errors. Apparently they changed number formats (floating point etc.) and the 2004 version can't handle it. The error log also says to contact the development team but gives no way to do that. And yes, I did update the program from the web before I started.
Ok, so now I'm entering everything by hand. Like Turbo Tax, it has an interview feature, but unlike TurboTax, the interview interface is dreadfully inconsistent. Sometimes you enter info in the interview feature and hit return on your keyboard and the cursor moves to the next field, and sometimes it moves the cursor to the form! Sometimes you can enter data in interview format, sometimes you have to enter it onto the form itself. Were the programmers simply too lazy to write that feature for each page? There is simply no logical reason to make me bounce back and forth between methods!
Next, as expected, the interview has many questions where you answer yes or no if you are elegible or required to fill out certain info. However, even if you answer NO, it still takes you to those pages! Oh but of course, that only happens sometimes, other times it DOES skip the pages!
I also purchased the state business componenet for TaxCut. Despite reporting that it loaded successfully, TaxCut professional didn't seem to know the state version was there! Of course, it was more than happy to display (right next to the "help" button)a link to BUY the state version!
Oh but wait, if you exit the interview mode, and click on "go", (not the logical tab in my opinion, which would be "FORMS"), you see a list (under "my forms") of all your forms, and golly, if the state forms aren't there! Of course, you can also add forms to your return under the forms tab. Careful, as you poke around trying to find the form you thought you added to your return, you may add the form again from the "forms" tab. The program, instead of taking you to the form you added, will instead add another copy of the same form, which you can later NOT delete from your return. I know there may be circumstances where you DO want a second copy of the form, but mostly you don't. Would it be too much for the "forms" section to ask if you want a new copy or to go to the one you already added?
Now, you'd expect, since the main program doesn't appear to know the state forms are there (or maybe it does ?!?!) you would have to enter data into the state forms by hand, but it's not that simple! SOME forms have SOME data automatically transferred in them, SOME forms have NONE!
And what if you need help? The help link has a simple FAQ that has a very minimal few lines then refers you to the IRS instructions. Well if the IRS instructions made any sense, I wouldn't be using a help section of a tax program. Especially one written by TAX EXPERTS!
I could go on and on, but since I've just spent an ENTIRE DAY doing these taxes, I'm burned out. FYI, I run a SIMPLE small business, I can't imagine what kind of nightmare this would be for a business with inventory, and employees etc.
Please, please, please, stay as far away from this program as possible. I'm saying this for your own good.
I would give this 0 stars if Amazon would let me.
Bug in the IRA/Pensions withdraw Area: March 28, 2005
Steven J. Dunker (Oklahoma)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you take IRA withdraws and have a pension just stay away from this program. If you already have it and can't get hold of tech support, email me and I'll tell you the work around they came up with. The sad thing is we could not have been the first to encounter this, (the tech people acted like it), so who knows how many retired people overpaid.
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