Online Tax Preparation Software. What are you using?

This is the third year I have used Turbo Tax (Fidelity footed the bill except for $5 state form and $25 state e-filing). It does get easier. Desktop premier version allowed me to look at the one form that was triggering a problem to file electronically. I am extremely thankful of their help.

After much angst on a mineral rights form, I called them at 9:30 PM. I fully expected to up grade to a few hundred dollar help thing. But that never came up. The tech who spoke in a very supportive way and the accountant who never spoke (only had a red arrow for directing me on Glance version) were extremely helpful. It turns out it was human error (mine) that I picked a default of rental rather than mineral rights at the initial entry. I did come up with the idea to throw out the form and start at the beginning of the entry, and the tech caught the error.

Then there were a few more glitches that showed up and they asked me if I wanted to do it myself or if I wanted them to walk me through it. I chose the latter and filed last night. Whew!

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