Customer Reviews for H&R Block - Tax Software Premium & Business 2025 - Windows
Customer Rating
5
Much better than all the other software
on October 14, 2020
Posted by: sk8nbabe
from Florida
I have used other tax preparation software for many years, but this year for the first time I used H&R Block. It was much better quality, much easier, and much more thorough than other software. I recommend everybody use it.
Pros: Easy to prepare, Maximizes refund, Easy to import documents, Fast
Very good and has gotten better and cleaner each year. Some difficulty with Foreign taxes paid on passive income all unsupported info entries regarding some entries on K1.
The personal tax portion of Premium & Business worked OK. If you have an S-corp that requires 1120S, it's supposedly supported. However, the interview process is VERY weak, and if you simply follow the interview, you will miss out on the 20% Qualified Business Income deduction! I caught this at the last minute and bought Turbo Tax, which brought my tax liability down by about $11k!
It took a while to become familiar with the software but I once did, the software is user friendly and does all of the work for the return based on the info entered into the worksheets. I feel confident nothing was missed.
Filling out the federal return was fairly straightforward, but the state returns (MA and NY) were terrible. Very little instruction, and some of the instructions in the software read differently than the actual forms. I also filled out payment information for electronic funds payment (NY) but that didn't populated the electronic filing and so I ended up with a bill with interest.