Is TurboTax for Mac as good as the Windows version?

[PaunchyPirate]

I just posted in another thread that I am in the process of transitioning from Quicken for Windows to the Mac version. I run Windows on my Mac via a virtual machine using Parallels software. The only other thing I use Windows for, for the most part, is TurboTax every year. For those of you that have used both, does the Mac version of TurboTax work just as well as the Windows version? I’d like to stop paying for the Parallels subscription if I can move TT to the native Mac like I did with Quicken.

 

[LateToFIRE]

I've used TurboTax Home & Business native Mac download for the past 10 years, never encountered a compatibility problem. Been awhile since used Windows version, but far as I could tell looks and feels like the same program. I even think the data files transferred over just fine - but don't hold me to that fuzzy memory.

 

[audreyh1]

It must be. TurboTax for Mac is very good/complete and we’ve used it since the early 90s.

 

[PaunchyPirate]

I've used TurboTax Home & Business native Mac download for the past 10 years, never encountered a compatibility problem. Been awhile since used Windows version, but far as I could tell looks and feels like the same program. I even think the data files transferred over just fine - but don't hold me to that fuzzy memory.

Thank you. That’s good to know. I will obviously try to carry my Windows data file forward, but I honestly don’t think I currently have any financial situations that would be negatively affected if I had to start from scratch for 2024 filing.

 

[Jerry1]

Essentially the same program. I’ve used TT on a Windows machine for decades. Last year I switched over to a Mac. Really no difference that I could notice. Pulled in last years file with no problems and handled the taxes pretty much the same. Only thing I noticed was that the print menu was a bit different. No big deal.

 

[Midpack]

DW and I switched from PC to Mac four years ago, zero regrets. And I used TT Windows for over decade, and now TT Mac for four years. No issues at all and like many here our return has some complexity (e.g. CGs, ordinary/qualified dividends, partial non deductible TIRA distributions>Roth conversions, Social Security, foreign tax credits, QBI, NIIT, EV tax credit, etc.).

 

[Flieger]

Been on a Mac for as long as I can remember, never any issues with TT.

Flieger

 

[MichaelB]

I’ve used TT windows for years, and used TT Mac once 5 or 6 years ago. The TT file was fully compatible both ways. I recall a difference in the interview process and thinking at the time that TT windows was somewhat better, as in more comprehensive, but it was still easy to go from one to the other and the difference was not really meaningful.