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TurboTax - Business Federal 2019 - Windows
Average customer rating
3.9
(4,477 Reviews)
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Customer Reviews for TurboTax - Business Federal 2019 - Windows
Customer Rating
3
I like TurboTax, but . . .
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: hap99
For Grantor Trust where the 1041 is essentially BLANK: Annoying inconsistencies regarding Grantor, Fiduciary, Signator. These don't seem to flow through once declared.
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Customer Rating
5
I like TT
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: sdie
Could not figure out how to electronic file, but mailing it is ok
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Customer Rating
3
TurboTax Business is Weak
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: zuckie
The TurboTax Business interview process did not pick up a lot of information, so I had to go into the worksheets to complete them before I could file the return
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Customer Rating
5
Simple and fast!!
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: Justincase_99
The first time using Turbo Tax Business, it was a piece of cake. Step by step layout with information readily available for areas I was unsure about. I will be using next year for sure.
Pros: My job status changed this year (switched jobs, lost a job, got a raise or promotion)
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Customer Rating
1
AWFUL!!!
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: awful5000
If you have a business and need to do business taxes and personal taxes, you CANNOT do this on turbotax without having to jump through 5000 hoops, and the hoops are on fire. Oh and you can't use your legs. FIX THIS PROBLEM TURBOTAX, your million of programs need to communicate with one another.
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Customer Rating
3
Somr Opinions of TurboTax and Intuit
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: What can I say
I have been using TurboTax Business for 4 or 5 years now. It is fairly easy to use but is sometimes confusing for non-accountants. The Learn More items use a lot of jargon we commoners don't understand. Might be necessary from a legal sense, but I wish there were more practical English than IRS pub language. (Sometimes I download the IRS pubs and forms and pore over them to get even more confused).
I have used QuickBooks for 20 or 25 years and I couldn't do without it. TurboTax invites the user to import from QB. I have tried it and it seems the two programs are not even the same order or genus, let alone species. I have tried rearranging and changing the names of my accounts to conform to 1120-S, to adjust my starting balances (which I found I couldn’t even do without starting a new company), and other measures to adapt QB to make it work with TT, but I haven’t had any success in importing. What I do is print out QB data and use it from paper.
An example of confusion: For 2019 I prepared an S Corporation return for a very simple company. I learned somewhere that S Corps didn't have to file Schedules L or M-1 if Schedule B, question 11, were answered a certain way. I had worked with Balance Sheets before and sort of understand Schedule L, but M-1 has always bewildered me, even though I know that some information on Schedule L flowed from it. I really don't like to send the IRS anything I don't understand or don't have to, so I downloaded from the IRA and spent a lot of time learning it had to do with corporation assets, but I couldn't pin it down. I seemed to remember addressing something about asset when setting up Company Info, but when I went back and tried to find it I couldn't. It wasn't until I was reviewing the return that I discovered neither Schedule was required because asset level didn't meet the threshold, but they were included anyway, and there didn't seem to be a way to get rid of them. If only I had found a Learn More item that said something like: If corporate assets are less than X million bucks (which they are) you don't have to submit L or M-1, and if the return printed with L and M-1 over-printed with the big black or grey letters "NOT REQUIRED".
I will probably not buy TurboTax next year, because tuit is, in my opinion, unreasonably forcing me to buy a new computer with Windows 10. My not-too-old Windows 7 machine isn’t broken, and is plenty capable for the uses to which I put it, but it will not load Windows 10. Nor do I want to switch because I have tried Windows 10 and I much prefer Windows 7.
Pros: I bought or sold investments
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Customer Rating
3
Clunky
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: trust taxes
I have used turbo tax for years and used this version for Trust taxes last year. I found this years version to be clunky and my "errors" were turbo tax not carrying forward entries from the worksheets into the tax return. I had to go to forms worksheet, find the value missing and enter it into the tax return even though turbo tax had created it in the worksheet, very confusing and time consuming
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Customer Rating
2
Business Tax - Really Struggled
on March 17, 2020
Posted by: DA602
I did not feel that the software had enough direction to confidently trust what we input was correct. I had to go out to google more times for assistance than I was able to get through Turbo Tax help and community. Frustrating that there is a known form 195 error stating the form needed to be completed to find out after going back through the return to have find out that the form is no longer needed.
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