Tax preparation software

[Justin Thyme]

Certainly not specific to Windows Me, but would anyone here care to comment
about tax preparation software? I'm ready to give it a try but I'd like to
know if there's one you definitely favor or one you particularly hate.

TIA

Ken Bland

--


A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.

[Mike M]

Ken,

Since this newsgroup is read worldwide it would help if you were to
indicate the country concerned. Don't assume that everyone reading this
NG is in the same country as yourself. For example I somewhat doubt the
software I use, provided free by the UK's HM Revenue & Customs. is going
to be of use to you.
--
Mike Maltby



Justin Thyme > wrote:

> Certainly not specific to Windows Me, but would anyone here care to
> comment about tax preparation software? I'm ready to give it a try
> but I'd like to know if there's one you definitely favor or one you
> particularly hate.

[Heather]

Let me guess.....you are on the West Coast of the US....right? So my
TaxWiz program won't help you at all, lol. It is Canadian. I have seen
mention somewhere of a "Turbo Tax".....that's American I believe.

Can't help you, unless you move to the Great White North!!

Cheers....Heather

"Justin Thyme" > wrote in message
...
> Certainly not specific to Windows Me, but would anyone here care to
> comment
> about tax preparation software? I'm ready to give it a try but I'd
> like to
> know if there's one you definitely favor or one you particularly hate.
>
> TIA
>
> Ken Bland
>
> --
>
>
> A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
>
>

[webster72n]

You've got that right, Heather, "Turbo Tax" is the "prevailing" program in
this "neck of the woods".
If Justin needs more options, I suggest he go to Mr. Google.

Harry.

"Heather" > wrote in message
...
> Let me guess.....you are on the West Coast of the US....right? So my
> TaxWiz program won't help you at all, lol. It is Canadian. I have seen
> mention somewhere of a "Turbo Tax".....that's American I believe.
>
> Can't help you, unless you move to the Great White North!!
>
> Cheers....Heather
>
> "Justin Thyme" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Certainly not specific to Windows Me, but would anyone here care to
> > comment
> > about tax preparation software? I'm ready to give it a try but I'd
> > like to
> > know if there's one you definitely favor or one you particularly hate.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ken Bland
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
> >
> >
>
>

[Melinda Chase]

I have used Turbo Tax for 2 years now. It's pretty straight forward and
seems to run fine on ME. Please note that it requires IE 6, which you
should have, but if you don't it's on the disk.
Hope that helps,
Melinda

"Justin Thyme" > wrote in message
...
> Certainly not specific to Windows Me, but would anyone here care to
> comment
> about tax preparation software? I'm ready to give it a try but I'd like
> to
> know if there's one you definitely favor or one you particularly hate.
>
> TIA
>
> Ken Bland
>
> --
>
>
> A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.
>
>

[Justin Thyme]

"Melinda Chase" > wrote in
message ...
: I have used Turbo Tax for 2 years now. It's pretty straight forward and
: seems to run fine on ME. Please note that it requires IE 6, which you
: should have, but if you don't it's on the disk.
: Hope that helps,
: Melinda

Thank you, Melinda. I was hoping for an answer from someone who would
provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.

"Mr. Google," who I checked pretty thoroughly before posing my question,
gives me plenty of sources but little specific help. There seem to be two
primary programs, TurboTax and Tax Cut, for use in the US, and not
necessarily on the west coast, with TurboTax the most popular one.

Ken Bland

[Mike M]

> I was hoping for an answer from someone who would
> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.

In which case why didn't you include that detail in your post rather than
assuming that everyone reading your post lived in the US and knew what
software you were considering? The west coast reference was simply made
by Heather based on your time zone, nothing more, and thus used to guess
that you were located in the US.
--
Mike Maltby



Justin Thyme > wrote:

> Thank you, Melinda. I was hoping for an answer from someone who would
> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.
>
> "Mr. Google," who I checked pretty thoroughly before posing my
> question, gives me plenty of sources but little specific help. There
> seem to be two primary programs, TurboTax and Tax Cut, for use in the
> US, and not necessarily on the west coast, with TurboTax the most
> popular one.

[Heather]

"Mike M" > wrote in message
...
>> I was hoping for an answer from someone who would
>> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.
>
> In which case why didn't you include that detail in your post rather
> than assuming that everyone reading your post lived in the US and knew
> what software you were considering? The west coast reference was
> simply made by Heather based on your time zone, nothing more, and thus
> used to guess that you were located in the US.

Outed!! (G) Right on that one, plus I recognized the ISP name as being
American, IIRC. But on the other hand......nah, not going to go there!!
Something to do with the word "insular". LOL.

XX Heather
> --
> Mike Maltby
>
>
>
> Justin Thyme > wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Melinda. I was hoping for an answer from someone who
>> would
>> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.
>>
>> "Mr. Google," who I checked pretty thoroughly before posing my
>> question, gives me plenty of sources but little specific help. There
>> seem to be two primary programs, TurboTax and Tax Cut, for use in the
>> US, and not necessarily on the west coast, with TurboTax the most
>> popular one.
>

[Mike M]

Heather > wrote:

> Outed!! (G) Right on that one, plus I recognized the ISP name as
> being American, IIRC. But on the other hand......nah, not going to
> go there!! Something to do with the word "insular". LOL.

<VBG>
--
Mike

[BJ Honeycut]

"Heather" > wrote in
:

>
> "Mike M" > wrote in message
> ...
>>> I was hoping for an answer from someone who would
>>> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.
>>
>> In which case why didn't you include that detail in your post rather
>> than assuming that everyone reading your post lived in the US and knew
>> what software you were considering? The west coast reference was
>> simply made by Heather based on your time zone, nothing more, and thus
>> used to guess that you were located in the US.
>
> Outed!! (G) Right on that one, plus I recognized the ISP name as being
> American, IIRC. But on the other hand......nah, not going to go there!!
> Something to do with the word "insular". LOL.
>
> XX Heather
>> --
>> Mike Maltby
>>
>>
>>
>> Justin Thyme > wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Melinda. I was hoping for an answer from someone who
>>> would
>>> provide a personal testimony, and particularly about TurboTax.
>>>
>>> "Mr. Google," who I checked pretty thoroughly before posing my
>>> question, gives me plenty of sources but little specific help. There
>>> seem to be two primary programs, TurboTax and Tax Cut, for use in the
>>> US, and not necessarily on the west coast, with TurboTax the most
>>> popular one.
>>
>
>
>

I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the average US
citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a particular
political party and had little to do with how most of us think, which is
unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[Shane]

> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the average US
> citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a particular
> political party and had little to do with how most of us think, which is
> unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>

I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!

But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous condition
of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less deprived of news of
the rest of the world - except when US interests are involved - and don't
appear to object to it. I have never heard this disputed, nor that the
average American does *not* watch a lot of tv (thereby giving tacit
approval).

There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens' in the
US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin to understand
that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds, Coca Cola and
Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder and explosion flooding
their markets by stealth (cultural imperialism). Could have done with a lot
less of it here - but US companies, like tobacco peddlars targetting
children, get 'em while they're young!

It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote the
one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by direct majority
mandate then can't you guys do something by objecting to electoral
corruption, perhaps, say with something of the fervour of the sixties? Are
the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth really so helpless now?

Shane

[Heather]

Yes, Shane.....I was referring to the average American's myopic view of
the rest of the world. We see it more up here in Canada than anywhere
else, I think. We simply do not exist on CNN for example. There is
just a huge barren land mass above the US border. No weather, no
politics, no nothing. It does get infuriating at times.

OTOH, I guess we can't blame Joe Average Merkin when their President
won't allow the media to tell them the truth about things like Fort
Dover and bodybags and so on. We knew.....but they didn't.....at that
time. But I now think that they are catching on as to how badly they
were misled by Bush and Cheney, et al.

We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting President
no way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used to say.

But I did promise not to get political.....lol.

Heather
"Shane" > wrote in message
...
>> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the
>> average US
>> citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a particular
>> political party and had little to do with how most of us think, which
>> is
>> unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>>
>
> I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!
>
> But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous
> condition of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less
> deprived of news of the rest of the world - except when US interests
> are involved - and don't appear to object to it. I have never heard
> this disputed, nor that the average American does *not* watch a lot of
> tv (thereby giving tacit approval).
>
> There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens' in
> the US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin to
> understand that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds, Coca
> Cola and Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder and
> explosion flooding their markets by stealth (cultural imperialism).
> Could have done with a lot less of it here - but US companies, like
> tobacco peddlars targetting children, get 'em while they're young!
>
> It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote
> the one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by direct
> majority mandate then can't you guys do something by objecting to
> electoral corruption, perhaps, say with something of the fervour of
> the sixties? Are the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth
> really so helpless now?
>
> Shane
>

[BJ Honeycut]

"Shane" > wrote in
:

>> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the
>> average US citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a
>> particular political party and had little to do with how most of us
>> think, which is unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>>
>
> I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!
>
> But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous
> condition of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less
> deprived of news of the rest of the world - except when US interests
> are involved - and don't appear to object to it. I have never heard
> this disputed, nor that the average American does *not* watch a lot of
> tv (thereby giving tacit approval).
>
> There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens' in
> the US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin to
> understand that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds, Coca
> Cola and Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder and
> explosion flooding their markets by stealth (cultural imperialism).
> Could have done with a lot less of it here - but US companies, like
> tobacco peddlars targetting children, get 'em while they're young!
>
> It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote
> the one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by direct
> majority mandate then can't you guys do something by objecting to
> electoral corruption, perhaps, say with something of the fervour of
> the sixties? Are the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth
> really so helpless now?
>
> Shane
>
>

No arguments here...I regularly check out BBC as well as the US news
outhouses (er...I mean outlets) but it only goes so far when the guy next
door is whining about how things are and yet considers voting not an
option. How do you reason with someone who agrees but doesn't want to do
something.

I think the fervor of the 60s is out of the question, but maybe a little
of 1776? I'm just as frustrated as the rest of the world. :(

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[BJ Honeycut]

"Heather" > wrote in
:

> We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
> Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting President
> no way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used to say.
>
>

We have impeachment, but it has never worked. And Canada is a good
neighbor, but when you figure a typical US student can't tell where
Churchill Bay is on a globe, you have to wonder...

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[BJ Honeycut]

BJ Honeycut > wrote in
:

> "Heather" > wrote in
> :
>
>> We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
>> Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting President
>> no way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used to say.
>>
>>
>
> We have impeachment, but it has never worked. And Canada is a good
> neighbor, but when you figure a typical US student can't tell where
> Churchill Bay is on a globe, you have to wonder...
>

Sorry, I meant Hudson Bay, but to a Polar Bear in Churchill Manitoba, it's
all the same. :)

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[Shane]

"BJ Honeycut" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Shane" > wrote in
> :
>
>>> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the
>>> average US citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a
>>> particular political party and had little to do with how most of us
>>> think, which is unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>>>
>>
>> I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!
>>
>> But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous
>> condition of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less
>> deprived of news of the rest of the world - except when US interests
>> are involved - and don't appear to object to it. I have never heard
>> this disputed, nor that the average American does *not* watch a lot of
>> tv (thereby giving tacit approval).
>>
>> There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens' in
>> the US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin to
>> understand that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds, Coca
>> Cola and Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder and
>> explosion flooding their markets by stealth (cultural imperialism).
>> Could have done with a lot less of it here - but US companies, like
>> tobacco peddlars targetting children, get 'em while they're young!
>>
>> It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote
>> the one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by direct
>> majority mandate then can't you guys do something by objecting to
>> electoral corruption, perhaps, say with something of the fervour of
>> the sixties? Are the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth
>> really so helpless now?
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>
> No arguments here...I regularly check out BBC as well as the US news
> outhouses (er...I mean outlets) but it only goes so far when the guy next
> door is whining about how things are and yet considers voting not an
> option. How do you reason with someone who agrees but doesn't want to do
> something.

Meanwhile I *was* always ready to admit it's not necessarily any better
here! Well...not much.

Guess it's what comes of playing on the weaknesses of the working guy, you
know, 'hey, he likes to eat chicken until he's sick, offer him as much as he
likes and he'll vote for us!'

It seems, from here, the most vociferous supporters of unregulated trade are
the Americans who keep talking about God. I wonder how they imagine the
resulting business practices differ from the way the devil would do things?
Maybe they don't *really* Believe, and the whole point is to justify
*whatever* they do in the name of making a buck.

>
> I think the fervor of the 60s is out of the question, but maybe a little
> of 1776? I'm just as frustrated as the rest of the world. :(
>

Amen to that. British managerial classes are as feeble as ever, but as
emboldened as ever by the same traditions that still make our media give a
flying f??? what Prince Charles does or doesn't do!...Do they have any
guillotines in Boston?

Shane

[Shane]

"Heather" > wrote in message
...
> Yes, Shane.....I was referring to the average American's myopic view of
> the rest of the world. We see it more up here in Canada than anywhere
> else, I think. We simply do not exist on CNN for example. There is just
> a huge barren land mass above the US border.

When Homer Simpson doesn't know where Canada is on the map, many don't
realise, I'm sure, it's based on an alarming statistic concerning American
students! Then most statistics regarding American students are alarming.

> No weather, no politics, no nothing. It does get infuriating at times.
>
> OTOH, I guess we can't blame Joe Average Merkin when their President won't
> allow the media to tell them the truth about things like Fort Dover and
> bodybags and so on. We knew.....but they didn't.....at that time. But I
> now think that they are catching on as to how badly they were misled by
> Bush and Cheney, et al.
>
> We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
> Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting President no
> way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used to say.
>
> But I did promise not to get political.....lol.
>

Life is politics. Windows is life! Therefore etc etc etc...

Shane

[BJ Honeycut]

"Shane" > wrote in
:

>
> "BJ Honeycut" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> "Shane" > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>>> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the
>>>> average US citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of
>>>> a particular political party and had little to do with how most of
>>>> us think, which is unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!
>>>
>>> But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous
>>> condition of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less
>>> deprived of news of the rest of the world - except when US interests
>>> are involved - and don't appear to object to it. I have never heard
>>> this disputed, nor that the average American does *not* watch a lot
>>> of tv (thereby giving tacit approval).
>>>
>>> There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens'
>>> in the US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin
>>> to understand that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds,
>>> Coca Cola and Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder
>>> and explosion flooding their markets by stealth (cultural
>>> imperialism). Could have done with a lot less of it here - but US
>>> companies, like tobacco peddlars targetting children, get 'em while
>>> they're young!
>>>
>>> It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote
>>> the one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by
>>> direct majority mandate then can't you guys do something by
>>> objecting to electoral corruption, perhaps, say with something of
>>> the fervour of the sixties? Are the citizens of the most powerful
>>> nation on earth really so helpless now?
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No arguments here...I regularly check out BBC as well as the US news
>> outhouses (er...I mean outlets) but it only goes so far when the guy
>> next door is whining about how things are and yet considers voting
>> not an option. How do you reason with someone who agrees but doesn't
>> want to do something.
>
> Meanwhile I *was* always ready to admit it's not necessarily any
> better here! Well...not much.
>
> Guess it's what comes of playing on the weaknesses of the working guy,
> you know, 'hey, he likes to eat chicken until he's sick, offer him as
> much as he likes and he'll vote for us!'
>
> It seems, from here, the most vociferous supporters of unregulated
> trade are the Americans who keep talking about God. I wonder how they
> imagine the resulting business practices differ from the way the devil
> would do things? Maybe they don't *really* Believe, and the whole
> point is to justify *whatever* they do in the name of making a buck.
>
>>
>> I think the fervor of the 60s is out of the question, but maybe a
>> little of 1776? I'm just as frustrated as the rest of the world. :(
>>
>
> Amen to that. British managerial classes are as feeble as ever, but as
> emboldened as ever by the same traditions that still make our media
> give a flying f??? what Prince Charles does or doesn't do!...Do they
> have any guillotines in Boston?
>
> Shane
>
>
>

Agaom. that's not a;; of us. just the rich Texas oilmen...

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[BJ Honeycut]

"Shane" > wrote in
:

>
> "Heather" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Yes, Shane.....I was referring to the average American's myopic view
>> of the rest of the world. We see it more up here in Canada than
>> anywhere else, I think. We simply do not exist on CNN for example.
>> There is just a huge barren land mass above the US border.
>
> When Homer Simpson doesn't know where Canada is on the map, many don't
> realise, I'm sure, it's based on an alarming statistic concerning
> American students! Then most statistics regarding American students
> are alarming.
>
>> No weather, no politics, no nothing. It does get infuriating at
>> times.
>>
>> OTOH, I guess we can't blame Joe Average Merkin when their President
>> won't allow the media to tell them the truth about things like Fort
>> Dover and bodybags and so on. We knew.....but they didn't.....at
>> that time. But I now think that they are catching on as to how badly
>> they were misled by Bush and Cheney, et al.
>>
>> We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
>> Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting
>> President no way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used
>> to say.
>>
>> But I did promise not to get political.....lol.
>>
>
> Life is politics. Windows is life! Therefore etc etc etc...
>
> Shane
>
>
>

Give us some help?

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

[Shane]

BJ Honeycut wrote:
> "Shane" > wrote in
> :
>
>>
>> "Heather" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Yes, Shane.....I was referring to the average American's myopic view
>>> of the rest of the world. We see it more up here in Canada than
>>> anywhere else, I think. We simply do not exist on CNN for example.
>>> There is just a huge barren land mass above the US border.
>>
>> When Homer Simpson doesn't know where Canada is on the map, many
>> don't realise, I'm sure, it's based on an alarming statistic
>> concerning American students! Then most statistics regarding
>> American students are alarming.
>>
>>> No weather, no politics, no nothing. It does get infuriating at
>>> times.
>>>
>>> OTOH, I guess we can't blame Joe Average Merkin when their President
>>> won't allow the media to tell them the truth about things like Fort
>>> Dover and bodybags and so on. We knew.....but they didn't.....at
>>> that time. But I now think that they are catching on as to how
>>> badly they were misled by Bush and Cheney, et al.
>>>
>>> We have one advantage they don't have.....we can kick out our Prime
>>> Minister if he ticks us off. They can't get rid of a sitting
>>> President no way, no how. Pity.....as the old tea commercials used
>>> to say.
>>>
>>> But I did promise not to get political.....lol.
>>>
>>
>> Life is politics. Windows is life! Therefore etc etc etc...
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>>
>
> Give us some help?

Steer clear of matter transporters!


Shane