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In article <1993Jan9.212945.4217@news.stolaf.edu>, brownd@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (David H Brown) writes...

>I writing to request suggestions for a US income tax preparation program to
>run on a DOS-only (640K) computer.

There is no better text-mode tax program than MECA's "TaxCut."

>My mom has recently had a bad experience with the JK Lasser program from
>ChipSoft (poorly redesigned user interface [lots of Alt-key combinations] and
>wouldn't load background data from last year... last year's version did not
>have these problems... she did call tech support re: background data).

Well, I dunno about Lasser (which was sold by Simon & Schuster, not ChipSoft),
but I can swear to you, I used ChipSoft's market-leading TurboTax last year,
and *hated* it.  I will never use TurboCrap again.

>Program should be able to handle multiple returns (she does my sister's taxes
>for her), loading data from Quicken would be really nice, and ability to
>transfer background data (names, dependents, etc.) from year-to-year would be
>good, too. I guess ease-of-use is a big concern here.

Pretty much everybody will import Quicken data these days--it's the lingua
franca of personal finance on the PC.