The H&R Block Deluxe 2020 software was really, really good. There were still some things that were confusing or missing or in a different version or just not needed now that write offs for taxes has been limited.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Easy to import documents, Fast
Cons: Doesn't maximize refund, Hard to import documents
Software is good and easy but updates did not work for me had to download from HRblock manually each time. Both Federal and State updates. They need to fix this.
Good tax assist program. I have been a user of this software since it was called TaxCut. It has a few warts but overall HRB has continued to improve it. It could use a much better HELP facility. It also needs a prompt to establish an "Auto-Save" to protect against loss of the tax file that can occur if your home suffers a power-outage during the tax file preparation process. The 1099 import facility needs to be updated to handle special log-in password characters that are allowed at most financial institutes. Lastly, but not absolutely necessary, it would be nice to have a progress status indicator during the tax software installation.
One of the program's strength is the importing of data to the "State" edition and the automatic updating of the State forms when you make a late change to the Federal forms. Regarding this strength, it would be reassuring if the preparation software would signal that the State forms were being updated each time you were to make a late change to the Federal forms. The changes are occurring because you can see changes to the State AGI and tax values, there just is no reassuring message displayed that the changes are occurring.