Turbo tax is the best! It is laid out in a logical way, and you can be guided through everything if you need, or just go to the areas you know you need if you are more experienced.
California State Corporate forms update for TY-2024 still not available with little more than one month prior to filing deadline on April 15th, 2025. After the Federal 1120 return was finished + e-Filed in early February I proceeded on to prepare the California 100 return, finding many inexplicable errors in the diagnostics which could not be resolved, as so I was resigned to filing a printed hard copy via mail. But there is still gibberish on the main schedule Form 100 including the page requiring signature + date by our Company's president. Other subsidiary schedules + forms such as 3885 Depreciation and 3805Q NOL carryover are OK, but not the main 100. Calling to inquire about when a complete final update for California would be available your support said that February 27 would be the availability date, and then it slid to March 6th, but still on today, March 10th, the gibberish is still showing up on Form 100. So my $50 has been wasted and our Company would have already had a finished state return if they had gone to the extra expense of hiring a local CPA firm in the SF Bay Area with software superior to TT. I had a similar problem with our family farm LLC in Illinois with TT derelict about releasing its state product there, and ended up having both the federal + state returns prepared by a CPA firm in the Chicago area. Do you also want to lose our business for California ???
The software is outstanding but it is becoming more and more difficult. Adding the ability to get help is a huge improvement. However, even the telephone help had issues with some of the questions. We did figure it out together