Had little to no problems completing the essential tax questions. Found two areas that do not measure up to TurboTax high bar. The estimated tax section fails to consider the death of a spouse. Doesn't factor in social security - not all is taxed, depends on other income. And it doesn't appear that you have updated all the 2018 tax law changes. So this section left me wanting. Virginia tax eFile: Initially only asked for surviving spouse's ID for filing. But then erred requiring the deceased ID information, but step-by-step questions would not appear for the deceased. I had to go into info sheets and add data and return to step-by-step where the deceased questions now appeared. Begs the question, though, why would Virginia need the ID verification for a deceased filler?

I'm a long time user of Turbo Tax since at least 2005. I've manged to gain some additional knowledge along the way and have even done some returns for family members. Now while I do recommend TT highly I think it's time they joined the cloud and started making a few things easier for their customers. I would like to see all future versions of our tax returns saved online in an Intuit Account. This would prevent any catastrophic problems with our computers. Ideally all work and records could exist online AND in our home computers if desired. I think a little more effort in getting personal help could be stepped up. A 90-minute wait time is pretty long! Hopefully my Google searches gave me reliable info "cause that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

If you are doing a joint return for a couple and one of the couple died during the tax year, Turbotax will not let you put in the drivers license information for the deceased person. Because of this it won't let you e-file the return. To get around this, I returned to the "personal information" section and changed the info, removing the fact that the person had died. I then was able to enter the drivers license information. Then I recorrected the information stating that the person had died. After doing this, Turbotax let me e-file the federal return.

I do all my own taxes, it helps me understand where all the numbers come from on the forms, but my investing and 1099-B forms caused a big headache for me this year, I could not have completed Form 8949 Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets without TurboTax Premier and the transfer of data into that form, ...

I was disappointed to discover an additional fee (hidden in the small print at the bottom of the box) for efiling my state return. The fee amounted to 50% of the purchase price of the program. Had I known of this hidden fee, I would have investigated other programs or options for filing. Truly a disappointing practice from a reputable firm.

Very thorough program but data entry not always easy. Weakest areas for me are detail modules to document lists of items and their subtotals. This is especially hard when last year's return had similar list that now must be updated. Locations of detail modules not clear; method for deleting old list not clear; no safeguard for duplication. Also, no way to reprint forms for quarterly estimates for next year. Poor index. Another problem: My nickname rejected because used before!! OF COURSE!!! I've used TurboTax before!!!!!

I've purchased the Premier product for several years. Every year the number of Broker trades that stresses the system decreases - Premier if specifically suggested for Investment activity. The core flow and process of the application recalculates after each enter key is pressed. Redesigning the investment piece for downloaded volume would greatly improve the application performance and stability. I'm willing to help on my own time to resolve these issues and eliminate my frustration with the application. And no, I have zero desire to use the online / cloud version.

By the time tax time rolls around I have a fairly large and complete spreadsheet containing the majority of the information I need to enter into our return. It would be extremely time saving and more accurate if there was a way to import the information. Perhaps there could be a template available for download that would ensure the data is in the correct format and sequence. I would definitely give five stars for that kind of capability.

Overall, a very solid package. Good references, relatively intuitive and always up-to-date. Challenges are (1) in the flow for areas like Deductions. Many sections, but only about three are visible on the screen at the completion of each section. User must scroll down repeatedly to get to the next section. Particularly a nuisance from the fifth through tenth areas. (2) Have an option to select forms to print instead of having to de-select from tens of forms not desired for printing. This is particularly a problem when I want to print only the second page of Schedule B, one item in the Non-Cash Deductions and the Two Year Tax Summary. Thanks, g

I have been doing my taxes on TurboTax since MSDOS and ChipSoft. It continues to incrementally improve even when the underlying taxes become more and more complex and convoluted. This year I had to file in six states. I completed Federal and all six states on TurboTax. I do not envy your current task of deciphering the NEW tax law.