I have been using TurboTax for 20+ years. Seems it gets harder every year. This year it did NOT do automatic updates. Waited until I hit "E-file" and then I get an error message I need to check for updates. This year I had to open the return I was working on instead of it loading automatically. This year you added a password requirement which I didn't need or want and I didn't see a way around it. I had to do imports more than once to get the information to feed onto the return. It's just getting more difficult rather than easier.

The software provides the information I need and I have years of experience so there is no "advice" other than upsell and distraction I don't need. I really hate the amount of marketing that appears in TurboTax. It is distracting and frustrating. I've paid for the software. Why is this additional marketing necessary. It feels like a trap is always waiting when I am not paying attention. I have to constantly double-check to make sure I am not paying extra for something that pops up in my way.

Good for the most part. The version for Mac OS has some issues with some message boards popping up where you can't see the bottom of the page. It can't be moved or re-sized, so you can't see any buttons or wording because it's below the bottom of the screen. It doesn't happen with the main TurboTax window. For example when I tried to import a W2 in pdf format it wanted me to log into TurboTax. I tried to cancel but I couldn't because I couldn't see the bottom of the screen. These are not huge issues but they are very annoying! I finally gave up and logged into my TurboTax account. Not sure why I needed to log-in just to import a pdf from my own computer to a TurboTax version right on the same computer.

I have always used TurboTax in past years and mostly would of had a five star reviews. I can't say that this year. I have to install and un-install the your program 2 times to get the federal tax part to work. Then I had to un-install and reinstall for a third time to get the state tax part to work properly. After all of this trouble, the program did seem to work for me.

TurboTax is generally very good, but it has a significant weakness for people like me who are retired and living off our investments. My returns for tax years 2023, 2024, and 2025 all had problems related to using the "annualized installment method" for calculating whether I had paid my estimated taxes correctly or not. All three years, Turbotax calculated that I owed a significant penalty for underpayment of taxes, and gave me *no warning* that it had put that penalty onto my 1040 form. If the software had warned me that it was adding a penalty, and suggested that I should go through the TT process for assessing underpayment penalties, I wouldn't have had to file amended returns after discovering the problem. Furthermore, in tax year 2024, TT didn't fill out the Colorado estimated tax payment form (form 204) correctly, which led to Colorado penalizing me, and me having to go through an appeal process.

It's been many years that I use Turbo Tax for my own filing. I like the step by step for some topics but I like to have the form option for other sections. I find the fee that Intuit charges for filing state taxes excessive. Again, for the second year, I am not pleased with the fully download setup. Maybe I am getting old, but the CD versions seemed to give me more sense of security. Maybe since they do not have to produce the CD versions and only offer the download, there should be no fee to file state taxes. But that would be detrimental to the profit margin.

TurboTax is a tried and true system. The product works as well as ever. I keep wishing they would allow for a better touch screen interface. Get into the 21st century guys, and allow someone to scroll up and down by swiping the picture, not the scroll bar. The online version is a rip-off. Tell me in the beginning how much more it's going to cost me so I don't use it in the first place. Incorporate the pdf-reading capabilities of the online version into the desktop version.

THIS REALLY APPLIES TO ALL THE TOPICS ABOVW. Not as efficient, reliable, and intuitive as previous years. Clunky ins accessing previous years data and then not complete requiring lost of manual work arounds and re-entry of items that previous years brought in with prior information.

I have used Turbo Tax for years and have been impressed with how well things are explained and how information is placed in the forms. I'm still not totally comfortable with the online version. I was not able to use my cursor to move around the forms, but needed to either use touch (which did not always work) or tab.

As usual, the 2025 Federal State Income Tax Product is very comprehensive and very intuitive with its very effective GUIDANCE tool. It takes a lot of the "guess work" out of preparing taxes and supplies easily understandable narrative to each section. This wil continue to be my "GO TO" tax prep software to use for my tax preparation.