Customer Reviews for H&R Block - Tax Software Premium 2020 - Mac OS
Customer Rating
3
New Feature Let Down
on April 17, 2017
Posted by: betterchecktwice
from cincy, oh
Marital status:Married
Being a long time HR Block user I was excited when I got this years HR Block Premium issue and saw that it had the Ohio School District Income Tax filing included. Doing it by hand and mail was an issue last year and thought the new feature would be nice. Not so quick, upon a final review after filing I found out that the program did not take into account payroll withholdings from W-2 information that was posted in the interview section of the program. I now have to file an amended return with the state and mess around with them. How Sad.
Overall I do enjoy the product as much as one can preparing their taxes and will use again next year.
Cons: Doesn't maximize refund, Hard to fix issues
Pros: Easy to install, Easy to prepare, Easy to import, Fast
Your schedule C has a major flaw. See case numbers 15969954 and RES39772543. I request a full refund, plus compensation for the lost hours I wasted trying to get this defective product to work.
Product sold as best for folks with rental products, yet the guidance is very limited and the reference to help is very convoluted. You have to go to search, enter the term they mentioned, then hope it is there to match to - business asset sold was not there - rather it was worded differently. really offers very little help or explanation. I slogged through but not confident the return is correct.
The software is fairly easy to use. It is more difficult to figure out how best to go back to make changes to previous screens. I have used the product for several years now so I have figure out how to navigate the program fairly well.
Have used it for many years, and has gotten better, but for every improvement there has been a takeaway, like form 4136 fuel tax credit used to be available on even the basic edition, but not supported on even the Premium version now.
Cons: Hard to fix issues
Pros: Easy to install, Easy to prepare, Easy to import
First time I've used the product for processing an amended return. Though the start of the process for creating an amended return is a little unintuitive, the software DOES actually produce both federal (1040X) AND state amended returns. In addition, specific instructions for transmittal of each amended return is provided and are very clear.