In my early 20's, I traveled around Europe and one of my stops was Athens. I remember while there, some Athenians would show how "rich" they were by dropping "worthless" single drachmas (worth a fraction of a US penny) on the street which a few of us would pick up. With about 20 of them, we could buy a delicious souvlaki.I must admit, last week I saw a penny on the parking lot, beside my car, I left it there, but did think twice about picking it up. Instead I drove away thinking, how careless and reckless I've become with money, just because I made it.
With 30 odd years to go, a lot can happen to spoil the best of plans. I’m optimistic and not expecting the worst, but it’s hard to rule it out with 30 years to go and no chance to go back to work. Who knows, maybe we’ll all be surprised to the upside...fingers crossed.
I think they will all run under Windows 7, But unless I bought the software, I could not guarantee it.
I looked just now and it was still $35. Since my state is so easy, I usually get the basic, no state version, but last year I got fed+state from Walmart for $19.49, so an extra $5 over the basic regular price.
The year I tried H&R Block I got two letters from the IRS and had to file amended returns. Once was because it failed to fill out the foreign tax credit form because I couldn't use it that year, but it got flagged when I tried to carry it over the next year. The other was that it didn't do something right with a Roth recharacterization. I also don't like that it doesn't show the QDiv & LTCG worksheet, which is how my taxes are always calculated. It's buried somewhere that's harder to find. And it doesn't index the pdf output, which makes it harder to find specific forms. Spending $20 extra on TT is easily worth it to me. A letter from the IRS (especially now that refunds are directly deposited) is never a welcome sight.
TT Deluxe with 1 Free State Filing usually goes down to about $39 around Dec 31st.
I'm going to wait til then to click on the buy button.
For me, I used to try whichever was cheaper each year until one year I felt I needed expert confirmation on my research on an issue (educational expense deduction). I paid H&R Block for "expert advice", and they told me it didn't qualify, but their reasoning was thin to nonexistent, which bothered me, but they were the experts, so I filed following their advice. I kept researching for a couple of months after filing, and it turns out that there was IRS guidance specifically covering my situation, I just hadn't been searching the terms the IRS used. The "expert advice" I paid for was directly contradicted by the IRS!!
Thank you.
I'm annoyed by H&R Block Tax software making it very difficult to get any numbers out of the software for use elsewhere. There's no 'export'. They don't even allow anything at all to be selected and copied (for pasting into a spreadsheet, for instance).
