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Article #439Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review
From: Liam Devlin
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:32
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:32
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pissed off wrote: > "Michael B." <spam@citynet.com> wrote in message > news:v4lev03bjvpdb3@corp.supernews.com... > >>don't bother waiting, the learning curve is short --- taxact and >>taxcut >>have similar menus, procedures, etc. to turbotax - it's the same 1040 ! > > As it turns out, I was over at Best Buy this afternoon getting a battery > operated radio like the government has suggested, and I saw Tax Cut federal > and state available for the same price of Turbo Tax state only. So I thought > what do I have to lose, and I'm here anyway, and I hate to go shopping in > general and even more so when it comes to anything related to computers, so > what the hell. > > I now own Tax Cut. I have the receipt for Turbo Tax, so I'm going to send it > back for the refund. > > The copy of Tax Cut comes with a free copy of Microsoft Money, but I'm very > relucant to switch to that because I think leaving Intuit for Microsoft > because of privacy is a little bit like moving from Syria to Libya because > of human rights. I don't use any Internet features of Quicken so I guess > I'll keep the version I've got at least for a while. I typically don't > change Quicken versions more than about every 5 years anyway and I just got > Quciken 2003 because it came free with the Turbo Tax. I'm in the same boat, although I did take the plunge & buy a copy of Money. I installed it and tried to convert my 2 Quicken (2002) files - Money had errors converting both, generated an error message which is not in MS's Knowledge Base, and the converted accounts don't balance. I really do not feel like slogging thru 2 year's worth of personal xactions & 4 year's worth of tax deferred stuff. I'm considering a 2nd attempt, but I'm not going to devote myself to making Money work. I also don't like the way it insists every time I fire it up that I should set up a Passport account for my password, etc. It asked me a bunch of things during the install, I answered, that should be it.
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