Customer Reviews for TurboTax - Business 2024 Federal Only + E-file - Windows [Digital]
Customer Rating
5
Dose a Great Job - with one short fall
on April 14, 2025
Posted by: mseklem
from Seattle. WA
Turbo Tax Business does a GREAT Job preparing Estate/Trust - form 1041 - returns. My ONLY COMPLAINT is that I have to buy all the other Business stuff to file a simple Trust tax return. Fiduciary tax returns are something many of us who have no other use for the other capabilities of TTaxBusiness. Preparing Estate/Trust returns should be part of Turbo Tax Premier, which accommodates receiving a Form 1041 Schedule K-1.
Janky software, Had an issue getting in a sign in loop between Intuit, turbotax and then Turbotax buisness. Ended up buying product multiple times as got stuck in signup loop. Product feels half baked, honestly feels simpler doing paperwork yourself and mailing in. Selected "will send check" for payment but the efile return sheet lists ACH and turbotax doesn't give an address to send the check nor a payment printout.
Overall using Turbotax has been a complete nightmare. First I bought the business edition, did my taxes, submitted, and got rejected. After some number of calls to the IRS and Intuit, I found that indeed I had filed as an S-Corp, when I am a C corp. Then I found the Turbotax business online only does S-Corps, and that I would have to get the App version. But the App online runs on Windows, and I am on Mac. What a total pain, so I found an old WIndows machine (with no email on it) and tried to install the App. It installed but when I ran it, it wanted some id number that I didn't have. The dlog said it was emailed to me, but the Windows machine didn't have email. After multiple support calls (actually very nice people) one person finally read it to me, and I was able to do the taxes. What a multi-day nightmare! All one the day before the deadline (by the time I had waded through multiple product purchases and products).
For an LLC that is electing to be taxed as a Subchapter S Corp, the guidance in the program is not clear. It forces a selection of one of the two up front, and the help section doesn't help.
Not a lot of explanation or step by step like personal income tax Turbotax, it was a good thing I had the previous year's returns (prepared by a CPA) to refer to as things such as 199A and REITs were not supported in the step by step. Also errors in the narrative- refers in one spot to 2014 return when this is for the 2022 return. Needs a good proofreader. Guess I'll just live with the aggravation as the cost is about 1/4 that of the CPA prepared returns.