I've been using TurboTax, on a Mac, for at least ten years. These days
I simply download it from the Intuit website. The software gets better
every year, and it makes tax time a breeze, even for someone like me
who has lots of itemized deductions and a schedule C.
Paul
On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Bob W. Wrote:
It's possible to get a lot of the big name software for nothing, or
next to
nothing, quite legitimately. <and> It's also fairly easy to get
things for the student price by enrolling in a
course which gets you a proper student id. <and> If all that
fails, then there is a lot of high-quality free software available,
such as OpenOffice which does a perfectly good job for most of the
things that
MS Office does. Microsoft themselves give a lot of good stuff
away. <and> Things like accountancy packages are available for
nothing very easily, or are
very easy to deal with on spreadsheets. When I had my own business
I did
everything in Excel. It helps to keep things simple.
That is partially true, Bob. With a bit of planning, I could enroll
in a community college course for less than $100, if I was to
purchase a high dollar software package. The rest of which you speak
has to do with the 'evil empire', who, given their spotty support
for the Mac platform over the years, is on my sh*t list forever.
Paul Sorenson wrote:
Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still
running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ----> ;>} <----
You are a facetious lout, sir... :-) More evil empire drivel...
Godfrey wrote:
If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why
use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do
it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've
migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed.
It works fine.
Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere
near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and
document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages.
Because I'm a lazy dog, who doesn't want to be inputing every penny
I spend into a database or spreadsheet. I like the idea of
downloading the data from my bank(s), entering the minor cash
purchases, then checking the balances and smiling at how clever that
all is. And most of all, sucking it all back out into what used to
be MacinTax, then TurboTax, to do my taxes every year. I do use
Pages now, though it surprises me all the time with crap built into
it's templates that I don't want, and can't figure out how to get
rid of. And I use Numbers as my spreadsheet engine - getting used to
that as well, but have neither the expertise nor the patience to
design and troubleshoot a personal financial package that would do
my taxes as well.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:22 , John Francis wrote:
Quicken updates come for free if you buy TurboTax DeLuxe.
It's generally been worth updating - Intuit products can
be very touchy about working with software firewalls, NAT
routers, etc. Until the most recent version we had to
disable our firewall and/or use direct dial-up access to
be able to talk to some parts of the Intuit site :-(
I stopped using TurboTax after years of having a hard time finding
a copy for the Mac. Now, you can buy an inexpensive copy for simple
tax situations and no state (I live in a no income tax state) that
runs on your PC, but if you want a Mac version, you must buy the
Deluxe version, and not use 98% if it. So I have not been aware it
would allow you to upgrade your Quicken, and frankly doubt very much
if it would upgrade anything for the Mac, especially back to the
2006 version. By the way, you cannot upgrade 2006 to 2008, and
cannot buy (from Intuit) 2007, and the new 2009 is not available yet
for the Mac (now called something like "Financial Freedom"). You
think that sound like "support for the Mac platform"? I think Intuit
is a tank-load of crap. You can tell them I said so.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
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