I'm very pleased with the ease of use of this tax return software. I had been a long-term user of another software and was nervous about switching. I found the transition extremely simple. H&R Block software successfully used my tax information from the previous product.
Wish I was a CPA. This is not a product for a first-time user of a tax prep software program. Very time consuming. I thought it would be simply a matter of filling in the blocks - glad that I had already done a paper copy of the return and was able to verify my own calculations. Of course, the "new" 1040 and Schedules didn't make it any simpler.
This is my fourth or fifth year to use the Premium
on March 27, 2019
Posted by: SELFEMPLOYEDMUSICIAN
from PORTLAND OR
EVERY THING WAS WELL THOUGH OUT AND WENT VERY SMOOTHLY. I HAVE USED THIS SOFTWARE FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS NOW AND WAS WELL PREPARED TO WORK WITH THIS INTUITIVE AND MOOTH RUNNING SOFTWARE....DID NOT HAVE TO CONTACT HR BLOCK ASSISTANCE AT ALL THIS TIME.
I’ve always used an accounting firm for taxes because the self-employed process & requirements are dauntingly complicated. This year I decided to go it on my own. For the most part, this package does the job very well. I’d have liked there to be links to particular IRS rules at different points, but I was able to find those rules without much difficulty. A truly outstanding product feature is that an H&R Block expert will review your work with you. The agent I worked with spotted inconsistencies I was able to correct and his input went a long way toward relieving my anxiety over accuracy/completeness.
Repeat purchaser - many years. Since I used to do taxes for a part time income, I wouldn't be a repeat customer of the H&R Block program if didn't like it. And this year H&R Block improved use-ability - finally. We used to be forced into the standard screen resolution to be able to have access to [Next] & [Back] buttons on most tax input screens. And the 'standard' was not the best size for people with bad eyesight. This year H&R Block corrected this. in 2018 MOST screens allowed us to scroll up and down so that we could maintain the best resolution for our eyesight AND access the entire data entry screen. THANKS! GREAT!
However, there are still a few screens remaining that require we make a 'resolution' change to fully view them. This is very inconvenient. So - please - correct these (make them also fully scroll-able) and, in my opinion, your software will then be as close to perfect as is possible.
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I had used an accountant for my freelance business because I thought I needed to. But I switched to HR Block a few years ago and its been awesome. I really have much more control over my taxes now, and I'm not paying an accountant a few hundred dollars anymore.