I have us this software for 10+ years, it’s easy to use and is great value for the money. I wish they would not charge to efile the state or at least reduce the cost, it’s top notch even with the state efile fee.
Consistently good software... I use it every year. There are a couple of klugy things on some steps (like a lack of help or explanation, or things that don't carry over but SHOULD, but overall, it's easy to use and efficient. And it's priced reasonably.
I switched from Turbo Tax to H & R Deluxe. It meets my requirements for completing the most difficult parts of our tax returns. It saves me hours of filling out forms and provides explanations when I'm not clear how to answer. The final check that checks for errors or inconsistencies is great.
I've been using H&R Block Deluxe for Mac for the previous 5 tax years, but I had a problem this year that I've never had before. I'm using the Ventura operating system and anytime I tried to do an update on the H&R Block software, the update failed and I had to reboot to get it to work correctly. There seems to be some kind of issue where if you start the tax software, a process doesn't die when you close the program and that seems to be keeping the updates from working. It seems that a reboot kills the process. I had a similar issue where my state tax program refused to load until I rebooted and then did an install. I've never had these issues before with this software. I plan to use H&R Block next year, but I want to see this problem fixed on Mac. I never had this problem before. Otherwise the software did work correctly when doing my taxes and I had no problems to submit my returns.