Would have been better if we received communications on software updates. Significant tax law changes came when stimulus package approved mid March effecting federal unemployment taxes.
H&R Block Tax Software is our Go To product that allows us to complete our tax returns from home and file electronically - Always feel like this is money well spent!
I have used this software for many years without an issue. There does seem to have been a glitch in calculating my State taxes this year where my City taxes were not calculated and I have quite a bit of onerous documentation to submit.
Save your money by using this instead of a tax service. Guides you along step by step. Any category that seems confusing has the answer in the help link.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast
Overall, the software works extremely well. The only area that might benefit from improvement is in accounting for the sale of stocks, bonds and mutual funds as reported on form 1099-B. The software seems to assume that the only way to report a short term capital gain/loss is to consider even a single transaction as a group of sales with a "VAR-S" acquisition date. If a short term transaction is entered as a single line item with a fixed acquisition date, the software assumes it is a long term transaction. There should be a way to select short term or long term independent of having to enter a single acquisition and sale as a group of sales with various acquisition dates. While this ultimately had no effect on AGI, tax due or refund amount, it did make it difficult to reconcile Schedule D with the 1099-B and 8949 forms.
This tax software is very easy to install and use. It guides (asks you questions) you through tax situations that might seem complicated. I believe it to be a great value and really like that it allows you to e-file up to 5 returns.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast