Customer Reviews for H&R Block - Tax Software Deluxe + State 2025 - Windows, Mac OS
Customer Rating
4
Not all forms printed
on June 3, 2020
Posted by: Ragtop
from Schenectady, NY
Have a balance due for both federal and state. State voucher didn't print. Had to go into forms to get it. Federal printed but it doesn't give an address as to where to send it. The cover page gives instructions to mail in return when it was efiled.
Pros: Easy to prepare
I would recommend this to a friend!
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting HRBlock
Customer Rating
4
Works as expected
on June 4, 2020
Posted by: T Dave
from Baton Rouge, LA
Did not allow paying federal tax directly from my bank.
Pros: Easy to prepare
Cons: Time consuming
I would recommend this to a friend!
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting HRBlock
Customer Rating
5
Easy to use
on June 4, 2020
Posted by: Bill Lon
from Baltimore
Nice software. Very easy to use. Seems to be accurate. Minor issues- 1) could be easier to go back to a specific line; 2) needed to play around with it to get it to update before e-filing Federal return.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast
I have used H&R Block software for the past 23 years. I have always felt secure with it and my filing. I like that every year I can import all my general information from the previous year and not have to spend time entering it year after year. I am a perfectionist when it comes to my finances and I trust H&R Block software.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast
Not very user friendly. I had a hard time entering data as I couldn't find the proper place to use it. seems like the program thought I was a CPA. Will not use it next year.
Cons: Time consuming, Doesn't maximize refund, Hard to prepare
Generally, the product makes it relatively easy to do your own taxes at a cost that is much lower than hiring an accountant. If more people did their own taxes, and understood how the tax laws worked, they would be more politically enlightened, and would make different decisions at the ballot box. I will repeat an area for improvement for the product that I have expressed before, and that is dollar rounding. Various entities report your tax information to the IRS down to the penny, and it is a bit distressing that the dollar rounding of the program can cause the final amount that is entered on form 1040 to be significantly different from what is reported to the IRS by those entities. This is particularly true for me with the number of stock and options transactions that I do in a year. If you have a large number of transactions, and each transaction is rounded up or down, the final gain/loss calculated by the program can be significantly different from what your broker reports to the IRS. Part of the problem is the excessive over regulation by the IRS that requires each individual transaction to be documented, as opposed to just reporting the bottom line gain/loss, but that’s another conversation. Let’s face it, it’s a computer program. The computer certainly has the ability to deal with the numbers to the second decimal point. I’m guessing the guidance from the IRS about rounding is a holdover from the past when all tax returns were done on paper, and the math was done by hand, or by calculators. At a minimum, the program should keep all preliminary calculations to the penny, and only round the amounts entered on the major forms (1040, schedule A, B, etc) to the dollar. But again, since the math is done by your computer, why round at all?