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Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For years, the Deluxe edition of TurboTax was enough for investors and the self-employed to do their taxes. With this year's edition, Intuit removed Schedules C, D, and E, covering self-employment, investment income and asset depreciation. Those features now require an extra charge of $40. The company is getting murdered on Amazon reviews for it, with 900 users giving the software a 1-star rating.

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  1. Schedule D?! by twitnutttt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe I can understand the self-employment schedules as an upcharge, but Schedule D?!
    That's something the average American household should (hopefully) be needing for their investment savings.
    Owning a few mutual fund shares should hardly be an esoteric tax topic!

    Plus, ya know, ahhh Bitcoin. (Just kidding)

    1. Re:Schedule D?! by epyT-R · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.

    2. Re:Schedule D?! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.

      I have found that paying a CPA to do my taxes is a waste of money. Most CPAs just take your information, and pay some data entry clerk to type it into TurboTax. You might as well just put it in yourself. You have a bigger motivation than your CPA to find deductions, and you will learn from the experience how to better structure your business to avoid taxes in the future.

  2. Re:Not just self-employed.. by epyT-R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your fake incredulity notwithstanding, most people do not have the cash for that. They have to pay bills.

  3. Re:Not just self-employed.. by gatfirls · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pretty much:

    http://www.fool.com/retirement...

  4. Re:Just hire a CPA by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they had just said "Hey we're raising prices" rather than hiding the price increase by removing features and making you pay extra for them, they'd probably have come out ok- a bit of a hit from the higher prices, but not too much. The dishonesty of this is what's killing them.

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  5. Re:Dirty Little Secret by mrbester · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry, I live in a country where if they want to tax me they make the effort to work out what I have to pay instead of expecting me to do their work for them.

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