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H&R Block At Home 2009 Premium Federal + State + eFile [Formerly TaxCut] [Download]

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

9 reviews

Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: Software Download
Edition: Home Premium
Operating System: Windows Vista

Model: 1516800-09

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Features:

•	H&R Block At Home Premium includes everything you need to easily complete your federal and state taxes, plus five free federal e-files
•	Ideal for homeowners, investors, rental property owners, and self-employed Schedule C filers
•	Easily import W-2, 1099, and data from last year's return; quickly import data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, and Microsoft Money software
•	Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income; H&R Block DeductionPro software to maximize tax savings from donations
•	Money-saving tools for self-employed Schedule C filers; Advice, tips, and planning tools for the upcoming year

At Home Premium

Self-Employed / Rental Property Owners
The right choice for customers with more complex tax situations to easily complete their federal and state returns. Includes five free federal e-files and built-in expertise available only from H&R Block.

Includes these features:

Customized interview process to help customers easily complete their federal and state taxes.
Five free federal e-files.
Personalized tax guidance for popular occupations and specific deductions, plus answers to FAQs.
Live tax advice from an H&R Block tax professional.
Audit support with guidance, plus an H&R Block enrolled agent to represent you in the event of an audit. Included when you file a federal or state return.
Guidance for reporting investments, dividends, home sales, and retirement income.
Money-saving tools for self-employed Schedule C filers.
Advice, tips, and planning tools for the upcoming year.
Easily import W-2, 1099, and data from last year's return.
Quickly import data from TaxCut, TurboTax, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and H&R Block DeductionPro software.
H&R Block DeductionPro software to maximize tax savings from donations.

Product Description
Guidance for all your personal tax situations. Federal forms and State forms. Step-by-step interviews guide you through a customized experience relevant to your tax situation. Everything you need to prepare your federal and state taxes in one complete program.

Customer Reviews:

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TAX CUT ROCKS !! February 1, 2010
Thomas A. Mays (Wichita Falls, TX)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I've used Tax Cut for 3 Tax seasons now & It is truly easier to use and a cut above the other Tax programs. I purchased the premium version & I imported last year's return in about 2 clicks. I plan on e-filing again & this copy allows users to file up to 5 e-file returns. I own my own business and the schedule C interview makes depreciation schedules and legit deductions a breeze. Also, there is a built in audit/review feature that will help you "tweek" your tax return and Q.C. before sending it to the IRS. I downloaded this 2009 version on the web using road-runner a 5 minute download which results in FREE SHIPPING. A Highly recommended purchase - used to pay my CPA over $[...] bucks for this same service. Hope this review helps & builds confidence if you're considering this product ! [...]

4 out of 5 stars

Good program -- eFiling tricky to find "key code" January 30, 2010
Philip Klatte (Seattle, WA)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful

This program was very easy to us, and it was surprisingly easy to go back and change things after half filling it in. I filled out most of the form long before I got my W-2 and 1099s, and going back was no problem. When going back in the form, the only thing I recommend is using the tabs to go to the right section ("Personal", "Dependents", "Income", "Adjustments", etc.) and then clicking on the "Go To" link for the _summary_ of that category. This allows you to hone right in on what you want to find; it's easy to get stuck in the linear input process if you don't use some direction.

The biggest problem was that you have to find the "key code" that comes with this version of the program, allowing for 5 free e-files. All the in-program help said that if you downloaded the program, the code would be mailed to you, and it even showed what such an email might look like. I checked the email I have registered with Amazon, and my email I might have put in during registration (I couldn't remember if there had been a registration process), and I couldn't find the "key code". It turns out that there is no email. ...you need to go to the Amazon folder that gets put in your Start Menu, as a part of installing the downloader. In that folder ("Amazon"-->"Amazon Games & Software") there is an icon labelled "Go to Your Games & Software Library". If you click on that, then click to "view order key", it will show you the "key code". The key code does not look like the example that H&R Block shows you ("ABCD-1234"), it _is_ four characters -dash- four characters, but it's totally random looking (not letters on one side and numbers on the other -- e.g. "HQ8F1-RG29L" -- I almost didn't recognize it after looking at the example that H&R Block had in their Help text).

I used TurboTax last year. I switched this year to H&R Block At Home because I wasn't happy with it and someone in a review had mentioned this program. I am much happier with H&R Block than TurboTax -- it seems much less like a random series of questions, and I can guess what it's getting at on the forms when it' asking me questions.

4 out of 5 stars

Glitch with the November Homebuyers Credit February 23, 2010
Cat Herder (Bryan, TX United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I have been using this product since 2004. I liked it better than Intuit's TaxCut when I compared them head to head.

Sure, it was clunky, but it seemed to have the tax code down pat and the step by step methodology was effective.

This year H&R Block renamed the product and put a slightly slicker interface on the product. Unfortunately, they seemed to have missed a few things under the hood.

I've spent about three hours with the software this evening and have found two problems. One minor and one major. They are both related to the sale of our old house and purchase of another house in 2009.

The minor issue is that the software makes it easy to enter the data to support a home office deduction. For the last two years we have been claiming my wife's office as it was qualified in all respects. We sold that house last year and while doing the interview on the sale, it wanted me to calculate who much depreciation IT calculated in prior years. Umm, if the darn software can read last year's return, surely it could extract last year's depreciation. It would be reasonable to expect it to ask for other Taxcut save files to extract add'l years depreciation. But it can't/won't. That's minor compared to my next discovery.

We have read and re-read IRS publication 5405 - related to the Federal Homebuyer's credit. The form seems clear. We appear to be eligible for $6500 for helping the economy. A nice surprise! The software even has the right IRS form, with the right date, and it calculates correctly. Yet.....the INTERVIEW doesn't address the November 2009 extension covering existing homebuyers hwo buy a new home. That's looking like a defect to me.

So, I availed myself of the support options:
1. I called the 800 # (nice that it's 24x7 this time of year). Waited a modest 4 minutes, and a nice lady with perfect English. She asked for my email, and then we were disconnected.
2. Good thing I also had the CHAT page up and another tech showed up. I explained the issue and he asked me to double check that the software was indeed up to date (I told the software to update 3 times). All he could offer was an apology and did not know of anyway for me to report what appears to be a defect. He did offer that if I filed and there was an error and a fine, H&R Block would cover me up to $10,000. I explained an omission may be an error, but it there wouldn't be a fine. Thus H&R Block was not going to cover this situation.

Frankly, if I finish my return using this software I'm going to need whiteout to add the credit when I follow the IRS requirement to print the return (and supporting documents) and mail it in. [DRG - see updated notes below].

I hope this is so obvious that H&RB knows about it - perhaps the economy is so bad I'm their only customer fortunate enough to buy a house this year? I don't know. I'm going to give their corporate office a call tomorrow and see what happens when I "ask for the President's office". If that doesn't work then Amazon can refund my money and Intuit can suck me a little bit drier as I'll have to become one of their Zombies this year.

Updated 3/1/2010
I called their HQ during the day and asked for a manager, after some quick forwarding I was talking to a manager and explained the situation and why I felt that there was an incomplete feature. The outcome was two fold:
1. I was shown that you can use the attached IRS forms in lieu of the interview. The credit did calculate correctly - I just have to avoid using that particular interview.
2. I spoke with a support tech who knew how to handle tech savvy customers and professionally represent his company. After taking exquisite notes, and reading them back to me, he assured me that they were going to get this over to "engineering". I believe him.

So I continue on feeling much better about the situation.

4 out of 5 stars

Very user-friendly February 23, 2010
Amy Mcfarland (California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

We've been having an accountant do our taxes for the past five years, and I finally decided to give this a try this year. Overall it's very easy to use. It asks a series of questions guiding you through possible deductions and credits, and has a button in the lower right-hand corner that will show you the actual spot on the IRS forms where your answers are going, if needed. This was great for me, as I was comparing last year's (done by the accountant) to this year's. If I got lost, I could just look at the actual IRS form and see the box being discussed.
This also includes free efile, which is handy. I chose the download option from Amazon, which had this on my computer within three minutes, didn't even have to wait on the mail. I had no issues at all with installing the software or using it.
My only complaint came with the state part of the software. I'm in California, and perhaps my issues stem from the slightly crazy laws in my state rather than the software. The software would offer me 5-6 optional deductions, and if I pressed "more info" to see if they applied, it would give me a 1-line message from the State of California that made absolutely no sense, referring me to previous tax history searches online.
All in all, the federal part was easy to use and worthwhile. I just wish they'd spent a little more time adding in helpful information for the state part in my case (California).

4 out of 5 stars

....Even this Caveman can do it! March 7, 2010
Ed
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Having been a loyal(?) TurboTax user since 1997 I found the blogs full of disdain about TurboTax 2009 (State returns limited to one, shammy marketing tactics, up-selling tactics, price, moved R&D to Bangalore, India, shabby support, etc), so I decided to try H&R Block At Home Premium(formerly TaxCut).
I ordered the download version on Amazon and had no problem with the download or install on my Windows XP machine.
(I did follow the advice from one reviewer to download the Amazon game loader first and download a free game to make sure it works....no problems and great advice...Thanks!)
I have now completed 3 Federal and State returns using H&R Block At Home (2 very simple children's returns and my more complex self employed with depreciable assets and somewhat complex investments). I have found this program as easy to use as (if not easier than) TurboTax, and it does not have the annoying up-sell marketing stuff that comes in TurboTax. I was able to import previous year tax files from TurboTax with no problem and it appears that everything carried over properly. My only complaint is the very limited financial institution downloads ( I doubt that I am the only customer using Chase Bank, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, Fidelity, American Funds;)
I have already completed one Fed e-file and got an e-mail reply within 12 hours that the IRS accepted the return.
Just remember where to find your Key Code as you will need it when using the 5 included free Fed e-files. State e-files are available for an additional fee.
Overall, I highly recommend H&R Block At Home. I would give it 5 stars if they improve the financial institution download support.

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