Used H and R Tax program for 7 years. This year's tax program had alot of changes with the tax code. I felt it summarized the changes so you knew what to answer. This does not mean that you didn't have to think about the questions.
Every January 1 I order my copy of HRB Premium. I always get excellent results, prompts kep me going in the right direction exploring all potential deductions!
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast
Couldn't get support. Waited an hour to be told they can't do anything. Finally got it to work on my own after days of drama. Chat support makes it impossible to get a human. Then doesn't give hours of when humans are available.
Then once you do figure out how to reach someone, they don't even have the same mapping on the software so you both are frustrated trying to find the place they want you to find. I feel for them too.
Software makes you manually enter in everything for every return even if you have ones you know you want standard deductions for but almost all other software let's you choose before going through all that trouble.
Had to enter all tax papers in manually as I couldn't link the phone app to the software to upload it otherwise. Another day of trouble lost.
By far the worst experience with ANY software EVER... let alone tax software! I'm not computer illiterate either. I worked for HP for YEARS. This is just a bad design and lack of support that creates a bad product. For how much all this costs it's absolutely ridiculous! Way better off using free software!
I want my money back. Never again.
Cons: Time consuming, Hard to prepare, Hard to import documents