Some of the questions are not worded in an easily understandable way.....and.... For the love of all things holy...Why do you ask me, year after year, if I want to purchase and file my state taxes in the state of FLORIDA? There is no State tax in FLORIDA....I would think for all the programming you do on this product that it would be a simple thing to not ask FLORIDIANS if they want to do their STATE taxes! NO STATE TAXES IN FLORIDA....SERIOUSLY!!!!

Product generally works although it has certain nuances that preparers need to work around. If you have experience in doing income taxes, this software will be sufficient. If you don't have tax experience or are a novice, you should consult a tax expert to prepare.

I use TT Business because my wife and I have a two-owner LLC. The IRS requires (the dreaded) Form 1065 rather than Schedule E in this case. However, because I also use TurboTax Premier for my personal taxes, I started by entering all my rental information into TT Premier. Next, I entered the same information into TT Business. Then, I compared it to the results from TT Business. I found expenses needed to be reduced by the percent of personal usage and that TT Premier handled all those calculations. However, TT Business had *NOT* - it over reported the loss even though you enter both rental days and personal use days. Yes, the TT Business help states that you are to include only rental portion of expenses, but I did not know it was based on the rental days vs personal use days. TT Business ASSUMES you know what to do. For the price, I expect the same level of program support in Business as is found in Premier.

Turbo Tax Business does a GREAT Job preparing Estate/Trust - form 1041 - returns. My ONLY COMPLAINT is that I have to buy all the other Business stuff to file a simple Trust tax return. Fiduciary tax returns are something many of us who have no other use for the other capabilities of TTaxBusiness. Preparing Estate/Trust returns should be part of Turbo Tax Premier, which accommodates receiving a Form 1041 Schedule K-1.

Make a desktop version for the Mac. Somehow make it more straight forward to simply revise the numbers from the previous year. 99% of the company stuff is the same as before. We just need to update the numbers for the current year. For example, has anything changed from the year before? If not, here are the numbers to update for the current year.

I entered shareholder distributions and only a portion of the amount was pushed to retained earnings. I was on the phone with a live agent and they were not able to resolve the issue. I ended up manually adding the difference to balance sheet equity secction. The retained earnings is not reconciled.

I found the information about QBI to be lacking. The form for the 199 provides places to make adjustments, but there is no real help describing what kind of adjustments would be appropriate. Every year, I also have difficulty navigating the K1 worksheet. One partner comes up, but when I want to see the second partner I can't easily access it. I can access the individual K1's but not the K1 worksheet. Making changes to the captial accounts is also difficult.

Doing the S-Corp taxes was easy. The e-file was a pain. I wasted so much time redoing the Form 8453 because my signature would not show on the preview. I kept thinking there was something wrong. Looking you this situation, it seems TurboTax does not show your signature on the form even though it is there. If I want to see what the IRS receives, the signature should be on the form as scanned in. It was very annoying and a poor design.

The business federal return is decent. It was used for a simple LLC. Although under the "tips" section at the end, it said I may have overstated my basis and to go back to the partners info section. This was completely worthless. It just had me go through the same info as before, and I could not see anywhere that I had done what it said I did. As for the state addition, I can only comment on Oregon (an additional $50), and it is awful. We are a small 5 member LLC and not all of us live in Oregon. Because of this, the state requires we file a form OR-OC and OR-OC-1. Turbo Tax does not include these forms. They don't even let the user know that they will be needed. If I hadn't read the instructions for the main form, I would never have known this. Fortunately for us, the forms are easy to fill out on the state website. So 4 stars for federal and 2 stars for state of Oregon.

I was surprised and frustrated that I "started" my taxes on the WRONG TurboTax product. Evidently I completed my taxes on the ONLINE LIVE product, and went to file, only to be shown the price of $489. NOT even a little bit happy about that shocker. I eventually spoke with Anthony in Kissimmee, FL, and he got me on the right track.