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Re:Penalty for the developers
No, it is already happening. Because of this (and other problems), I won't use Intuit for any of my financial information. There isn't any bigger punishment to a business than losing customers. Please join me! A possible alternative is TaxCut
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Re:arrrg
Actually, this year there's no TaxCut for Mac. While TaxCut was and is cheaper than TurboTax, the Mac version was never an option for everyone, as some state versions got released only for Windows, not Mac. Hawaii was one.
I stand corrected.That's just... pathetic.
Hmm. From your statement (not owning a Mac, I only saw the federal one, I guess), I'm so shocked that "demand [would] continue to decline". (Hint to H&R Block: it's called "losing business to a superior product").
At least there's still the Web version, though now I'm looking at TaxCut's much more favourably.
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Next time they'll learn
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Re:I really want to know...
Quick and easy:
Can I run my tax software on it?:
Intuit Turbo Tax
Tax Cut
Quicken
Can I run my tax software on it?
Windows 2004 for Mac OS X (includes Excel, Word, PPT, Entourage, Messenger)
Can play a few commercial video games
Way too many to list.
Apple.com/games/
Will I be able to VPN to the office and back again
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Here's how I did it this year...
I was unable to find anything open source to do my taxes, and I do not trust my tax data to any company's servers, so using Wine in linux I installed the Windows version of Firefox, the Mozilla plugin for activex and H&R Block's Tax Cut.
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Re:Financial Incentive
you mostly only have to worry about writing it for two flavors of Windows: 95/2000 and XP
There are two lines of Windows. The 9x line includes 95, 98 and ME. The NT line includes NT 4, 2000 and XP. 9x and NT are a completely different operating system. They both implement the Win32 API and thus run (most of) the same applications.
Right now, there are some 25 million Mac users (supposedly) in the US, and there's one (TurboTax) preparation software application available to them.
There is also TaxCut Premium for Mac. -
TaxCut for the Web
Tax Cut for the Web lists Netscape 6+7 as supported browsers, so it should work fine with Mozilla/Firebird.
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Re:nice to seeYeah, but it's too little, too late for me. We've used Turbo Tax for about five years now, but this is our last. Next year we're using TaxCut from H&R Block. DRM? "Never had it, never will."
If I'd known about this DRM problem (and believe me, it was a problem) before we bought Turbo Tax 2002, I'd have used TaxCut 2002 instead. But frankly, this is just the straw that broke the camel's back. Intuit treats loyal customers like idiots, sending us CDs that cost us full price to activate when frigg'n Safeway sells Turbo Tax with a rebate so the real cost is just $10. Plus we file electronically for free where my wife works. But Turbo Tax won't print the required form for electronic filing until you pay $10 to use Intuit's "service." Fuck that shit, we're through with Intuit.
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All you need to know.
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All you need to know.
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All you need to know.
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Re:Sub-question - which can handle schedule C?A couple of choices come to mind: I did my taxes using Taxcut for two years in a row now, including using Schedule C, depreciation schedules, partial home use as a business, etc. You can also file online with H&R Block and there are probably other online filing options that I'm not as familiar with as well.
Wish they had Taxcut under Linux in fact -- I haven't been brave enough to try VM Ware yet or attempted it with Wine -- any others out there know much on if it will work?
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Re:Alternative?
I've been checking out Kiplinger's Tax Cut from my local library for a few years now. Very thorough software, and it only costs me money when I return it late.
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Tax adviceThe best and easiest thing to do is to go buy one of the following: I've only used TurboTax and TaxCut myself, and the Deluxe versions of either should have everything that you need. The simple fact is that not getting a W-2 complicates your tax situation tremendously, so you'll need tax preparation software eventually. The Deluxe versions of both TurboTax and TaxCut have "expert assistance" to guide you through a series of questions that will explain exactly what you can and cannot deduct.
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There is DOS software for DOSEMU, too.
I have provided software consulting services for 20 years to account firms and have written a federal income tax program that ran on a Z-80 machine with 4 KB RAM. So things are possible, if you recognize certain limitations. First, government approval is not required for a US federal or state tax program, other than if it prints forms. If the program prints ONTO forms rather than prins the forms themselves, no approval is needed.
Second, many fairly high quality tax packages are available in MS-DOS format. These are not usually consumer programs, but we have used them successfully in office environments where Win32 was incompatible, such as with OS/2. Drake requires a 386, DOS 3.3, and 256 KB of available RAM! Rock Creek/Universal Tax Systems has both DOS and Win32 versions, and the the versions can share the same data files. Kiplinger Taxcut is a Win16 program (with a Win32 installer, but it is just a self-extracting ZIP) that runs on OS/2 if you have the Arial font installed; I have no idea about WINE compatibility. But DOS programs should generally work under DOSEMU.
Several people have suggested using one of the many on-line preparation services. Kiplinger has already been mentioned, as has SecureTax which has been purchased by Intuit and merged with Web TurboTax.
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There is DOS software for DOSEMU, too.
I have provided software consulting services for 20 years to account firms and have written a federal income tax program that ran on a Z-80 machine with 4 KB RAM. So things are possible, if you recognize certain limitations. First, government approval is not required for a US federal or state tax program, other than if it prints forms. If the program prints ONTO forms rather than prins the forms themselves, no approval is needed.
Second, many fairly high quality tax packages are available in MS-DOS format. These are not usually consumer programs, but we have used them successfully in office environments where Win32 was incompatible, such as with OS/2. Drake requires a 386, DOS 3.3, and 256 KB of available RAM! Rock Creek/Universal Tax Systems has both DOS and Win32 versions, and the the versions can share the same data files. Kiplinger Taxcut is a Win16 program (with a Win32 installer, but it is just a self-extracting ZIP) that runs on OS/2 if you have the Arial font installed; I have no idea about WINE compatibility. But DOS programs should generally work under DOSEMU.
Several people have suggested using one of the many on-line preparation services. Kiplinger has already been mentioned, as has SecureTax which has been purchased by Intuit and merged with Web TurboTax.