TurboTax Deluxe 2021 Tax Software, Federal and State Tax Return with Federal E-file [Amazon Exclusive] [PC Download]
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'No download problems, no install problems, no activation problems. As for complaints that the software is incomplete or has "bugs" (omg, this happens every year): The IRS has not finalized some forms and rules, ergo the software CANNOT be complete! (Buy a competing product right now and see if it is "complete" and ready-to-file. Don\'t like it? Then wait until January 31 to buy,)\n\nAll issues will be addressed in automatic updates. I still find it great for planning and am happy to get it before January, with confidence it will be fully working when I am ready to file in 2022.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Downloaded and installed. When opening all I got was a white square the said "activation". This apparently is a common problem and there were a lot of suggested fixes. I tried them all and none worked. Buyer beware. If you have this problem you have not recourse. You cannot get a refund. Buy from some place where you will be able to return.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This software - TurboTax Deluxe 2021 - will not install on Windows 10. The download from Amazon is a ZIP file. When this file is opened, there is a pop up that says "extracting files" but nothing happens after that. I have tried all the suggested tricks, including "run as administrator" and several versions of "selective boot" but the same thing happens. There apparently is no way to download directly from TurboTax and use the license key from Amazon. So I am stuck with this purchase and no software. No way to return. I see from customer reviews from earlier years had the same problem, and it is unfathomable that neither Amazon nor TurboTax seem to care at all.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I\'ve been purchasing this from Amazon for several years. The installation process is the biggest complaint I have.\n\nI purchase the PC download version and Amazon has only 3 steps listed to install it. Those instructions aren\'t even close to the number of steps you have to go through. Every year I struggle through the same process of trying to remember how the heck I managed to install it the year before. Here\'s what I did.\n\nFirst, I have to be on my PC. Next, I have to open up my Amazon account on my PC desktop, go into my account and download it from there. It will ask you to save it (do this) and then it downloads. This year I had to do that twice before it worked. Then you open up the dowloaded file and it asks you another question, something about "do you want to run this". It tries to prompt you to answer No, but you\'re supposed to hit Yes. Then it installs and pops up a bunch of windows showing its doing its thing. You may have to minimize the Amazon screen to see this. Finally a Turbo Tax icon will appear on your desktop. From there you can open up the program and somewhere it will ask you to type in the code. The code can be found in your Amazon account where the download button is. Its a bunch of letters and numbers. Then Turbo Tax does a few more things and then it\'s ready to go. If you already have an account with TT, enter your password, etc. If not, you can set up an account. (Can\'t exactly remember at what point they ask you to do this, but the option is there. Like I said, this isn\'t a simple 3 step process and next year I\'m writing it down step by step).\nOnce in the program, it will give you an option to import all of your info (name, address, etc) from the previous year\'s tax return. This makes things easier. It also offers updates if you purchase this ahead of time like I did. I wanted to save $20 so that\'s why I got it early during the Black Friday sale.\n\nWhile I\'m not the most computer savvy person out there, I can still manage get this installed using a few choice words thrown in along the way. I wish they gave actual step-by-step instructions, but I guess they figure we all know what we\'re doing. We don\'t. I wish they\'d fix that because I know I\'m not the only one out there that has limited patience with this stuff.\n\nOne thing to note. Amazon doesn\'t offer refunds on this and I\'m guessing Turbo Tax tech support might be a hassle, so carefully consider that before you buy it. The code they provide can be used 5 times so it\'s not a one time use product.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'UPDATE:. After acouple hours on the Intuit site, I found an answer that worked. I updated my video drivers and everything finally went as it should. I was able to do so using the computers recommended video settings.\n\nI have used this software for over a decade, never with an issue. The last few years, I have downloaded from Amazon. Never an issue, til this year.\nAfter a seamless download, I decided to get it up and running and perhaps at least get the information from last years forms imported.\nEverything seemed normal, until the activation box came up. It was blank. Nothing but a header letting me know it was the activation box.\nI tried downloading a second time. Since I already had a copy, when I installed it offered a repair/replace option. During this process, it identified missing files.\nI saw where this had been noted in earlier reviews, but thought two giants like Intuit and Amazon would have surely worked out the bug. NOPE. And in contacting Amazon, no indication that they are worried about a defective product on their servers.\nNot sure about the others that had issues, but I am running Windows 10 Home on a new Lenovo.\nI was able to get refunded by Amazon and will contact Intuit about the issue(as well as likely buy directly from them).'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Nothing much new to say, it's the same TurboTax software that gets updated for the current tax season.\n\nThe interface is familiar ... guided, taking you by the hand or pick the stuff you want to look at or open up the forms view if that's what you want. Imports TurboTax data from previous year ... pretty much, they have this down by now.\n\nThe Amazon price was $10 less than list price, so that's a plus. Free Fed e-file, free state calculation and since my state now allows free electronic filing, no need to mail it in or pay TurboTax for a state e-file.\n\nLots easier than doing your taxes by hand and a whole lot cheaper than paying someone else to do your taxes for you."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Was playing around with 2021 TurboTax program and noticed an error in the limit of HSA contributions allowed for 55 years and older. They have the 2020 limit currently set in the software. This needs to be addressed.\n\nFound that fix to error was implemented in software on or around Dec. 23, 2021'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I purchased the TurboTax Deluxe 2021 software to use for my federal and state income tax preparation next year. This was the first time I purchased the software as a download instead of a CD, and I found it very easy to download and install on my computer. I opened the TurboTax software and did the recommended software update which took about 3 minutes. I then opened a new tax file for 2021 and the software looked for tax files from previous years which makes it easier to prepare my tax files for this year. I like the idea of downloading the software to minimize the waste I have to dispose of.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "We have used TurboTax Advantage and paid $70 per year since forever. We e-file the federal tax and paper-file the state tax. We would have to pay extra to e-file the state tax. I feel that TurboTax is deceitful in its marketing. I canceled TurboTax Advantage last year and opted to buy TurboTax from Amazon this year for $50. It says that it includes state filing, but it is not e-filing, it's paper-filing. I looked at HR Block software briefly and saw that TurboTax imports don't work well.\n\nIf you were to buy from the TurboTax website right now, you'd pay $60 for federal tax filing and $50 per state filing. Who knows if it's e-file? Costco is selling TurboTax for $50 too, but they use a third party IT company named Synnex to fulfill your digital download order. I'm not sure how well it works.\n\nI had no issues installing TurboTax despite other users complaining about installation problems. They most likely have bad hard drives. I have a Samsung SSD and it installed in about 30 seconds. When you register the software, you don't have to tell them how you prepared your taxes last year and where you bought TurboTax this year. It found my previous TurboTax info without needing any input from me.\n\nI would prefer that our government calculate the taxes for most citizens like European countries, however the IRS would need more funding to do this. Our underfunded IRS is also unable to extract taxes from the wealthy. Until then, TurboTax works for this average American family."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Updated Apr 10, 2022 Review\nI finished my taxes earlier this past week on Windows 8.1 and re-installed the program on Windows 10 21H2 and redid my taxes as the worksheets from trying different things were still pre-populated on Windows 8.1. By doing a clean install and only filling out the worksheets I actually needed I got a better more accurate return.\n\nThe earlier you start using TurboTax i.e. in Nov/Dec of the prior year the more forms will not be complete but the program should put you in the ballpark if you need to make another estimated tax payment or pay another mortgage payment before the calendar year is up. By the time Jan rolls around more updates make the program more usable. I think QC is lacking as the Jan 20 update shut me down completely and I had to wait for the Jan 27 update to have a working program again.\n\nLucky for me I run Windows in Virtual Machines so its really easy to backup/restore the entire Virtual machine from the command line in Linux using the tar command i.e. 30 minute top. This works great for the few times that a Windows 10 update has bricked my machine hence the reason for wanting to stay in Windows 8.1 for as long as I can but ultimately it's going to be the Win 10/11 show and that's were those backups come in handy.\n\nI changed my stars from 1 to 4 to 5\n\nUpdated Jan 31, 2022 Review\nI checked daily for a solution to the problem mentioned in the original review and there were none. On January 27th, I tried the newest weekly update and surprise TurboTax is working again. What a scare. It used to be that the product was tested better but in this day and we all are also in the quality control business and problems can take longer to solve. Glad this one only caused me to be down for a week, it could have been worse. I am raising my review to 4 stars. If I get to file my taxes w/o issues I'll review the star rating later\n\nOriginal Jan 24, 2022 Review (1 Star)\nUsually I run into very few problems installing the software and using it. This year was going well until the January 20th update. TurboTax tech support states there is no solution to this problem. So I may not be able to use Turbo Tax to do my taxes this year since they are at a loss. What's next? Finger pointing: i.e. it's my hardware, it's Microsoft's fault, it's TurboTax's fault ...\n\nHopefully TurboTax is monitoring the reviews and lights a fire under the problem and gets it resolved"}]