You get everything you'll likely need to prepare and file your personal and self-employment taxes. The tax planning strategies, expert advice, and comprehensive tax library can help you make tax-savvy decisions throughout the year. Strategic small business tools help you maximize depreciation deductions for properties, income, and expenses. Plus, discover how to make the most of home office deductions, find business-specific audit items before the IRS does, and much more.

Manage your retirement finances, too. The 401(k) Maximizer tool reveals ways to increase your 401(k) contribution without decreasing your take-home pay. Plus, Retirement Tax Advisor provides tax-smart advice for long-term care insurance, employment taxes for a nurse, reverse mortgages, gifts and inheritance, contributing to a grandchild's education, two-year allowance for sale of home, and more.

All federal versions of TurboTax desktop products for Windows include product activation to better ensure customers use the product in accordance with the License Agreement. An independent test of product activation technology in Intuit Inc.'s TurboTax desktop software products confirms the technology does not negatively impact computer performance or compromise customer privacy. The findings of the tests, performed by PCTest Corporation, an independent software-testing lab can be found at http://www.pctest.com/intuit/index.htm. You can still prepare multiple returns from one computer, and install and prepare your return on multiple computers. To fully uninstall the the SafeCast/C-Dilla element of TurboTax, you m ust download the free uninstall application at the TurboTax Support website. For additional information about product activation, go to http://www.turbotaxsupport.com and refer to TurboTax Product Activation in the News and Tips section.

Note: Free download of TurboTax State is good for one return only. Additional copies are needed for additional states. One free 1040 e-filing is also included after rebate.

In the era of heighten citizen concern about privacy your timing is
impeccably incorrect to alleviate customer concerns.
I suggest removing the product activation scheme or possibly risk losing more customers.
The only activation that should be going on is a few more neurons need to be firing between the ears of all who approved this scheme.


No problems for me   January 23, 2003
Moose
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

I was made very anxious by all the negative reviews, but I went ahead and bought Turbo Tax because I've used it before and I also use QuickBooks for my business. It works just fine for me. I have an always-on cable connection, so the registration took place during installation. There is no spyware recognized by Ad-Aware.


No problem   January 26, 2003
Anne A. Coletta (Carlsbad, CA USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

I installed TurboTax Premier on my computer (Windows 98) with no problem. The activation worked fine and was not intrusive at all. I am a long-time user of TurboTax (about 10 years) and really like the product--it doesn't get any easier than TurboTax. I can understand Intuit wanting to cut down on illegal copying of their software, so activation makes sense. It is something new this year and that always takes a little adjustment, especially for a long-time user--but I had no problems and would highly recommend it.


Feature rich, powerful program   January 29, 2003
Ken Friedman (Cupertino, CA USA)
6 out of 15 found this review helpful

I have been a user of Turbotax since the product came out, even before Intuit bought the program. It always exceeds my needs. I understand the need for activation so that doesn't bother me. I import data from Quickbooks for my business data and Quicken for my personal data. I can prepare my tax returns (federal and state) in just a few days and save the complex calculations if I had to prepare them by hand.


Enough is Enough!   January 28, 2003
CrabbyDaddy (Saint Paul, MN United States)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful

There seems to be a lot of misinformation in these reviews. Go to the Intuit website if you have any questions or concerns. One of the things I read on their website is that the product activation key isn't needed after October 2003, which means in the future you can install the software on a new computer without having to repurchase the software. I for one am going to go ahead and buy TurboTax. It hasn't let me down yet and I have been using it for several years!