 | | From: | Duane Bozarth | | Subject: | Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:22:59 -0600 |
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 | I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
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| | From: | John | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:14:28 -0500 |
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"Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
news:@swko.dot.net...
> I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
check out taxact www.taxact.com
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| | From: | A | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:17:18 GMT |
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"John" wrote in message
news:1105636475.6f3915b5c81ad5c7275ffcb423291914@teranews...
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> "Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
> news:@swko.dot.net...
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> > I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> > I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> > one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> > which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> > needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> > turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> > significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
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> check out taxact www.taxact.com
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TaxAct is great I have used it for several years.
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| | From: | Al. C | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:20:00 GMT |
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| A wrote:
> TaxAct is great I have used it for several years.
Does anyone know of an online system that will do the Fed. 1120 corporate and
a CA 100? Seems that there are alots of online systems for personal taxes but
none for small corporations.
Thanks,
Al
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| | From: | Duane Bozarth | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:21:09 -0600 |
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| "Al. C" wrote:
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> A wrote:
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> > TaxAct is great I have used it for several years.
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> Does anyone know of an online system that will do the Fed. 1120 corporate and
> a CA 100? Seems that there are alots of online systems for personal taxes but
> none for small corporations.
Have you looked at the "deluxe" or "professional" at TaxACT? I saw it
has a bunch of other stuff but not those specifically as I'm just
self-employed.
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| | From: | Duane Bozarth | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:27:59 -0600 |
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| John wrote:
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> "Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
> news:@swko.dot.net...
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> > I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> > I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> > one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> > which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> > needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> > turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> > significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
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> check out taxact www.taxact.com
OK, I downloaded the demo version and went through a first cut
yesterday...
It works but is tedious. Best I could tell, there's no WYSWIG, just a
Q&A format for data entry. Some fields have a worksheet that will take
entries and compound them. Forms/Schedules seem pretty complete--at
least so far I've not run into a limit. For the price, it seems quite
nice...thanks for the "heads-up"/link.
I'll spend some more time today seeing if I can get to the forms
themselves...been a couple of places where lack of context of the
question posed leaves some doubt in my mind as to which actual piece of
info is wanted so I'm not sure all are entered properly as yet...
Will serve the purpose of an initial estimator, though, I believe
adequately. Unfortunately, as I feared, the bite appears as though it
is going to be significant... :(
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| | From: | Duane Bozarth | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:23:40 -0600 |
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| John wrote:
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> "Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
> news:@swko.dot.net...
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> > I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> > I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> > one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> > which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> > needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> > turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> > significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
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> check out taxact www.taxact.com
Thanks...I have downloaded the free version...if it has all the
necessary schedules that should be all I need for the purpose at hand...
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| | From: | Help | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:27:23 -0600 |
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| Duane Bozarth wrote:
> I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
Try Tax Cut - Home & Business it's about $60 for the Fed version and $25
for the state. Does the same thing Turbo does but for much less money.
Available same stores Turbo is sold.
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| | From: | Ron Todd | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:20:46 GMT |
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| On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:27:23 -0600, Help
wrote:
>Duane Bozarth wrote:
>> I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
>> I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
>> one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
>> which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
>> needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
>> turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
>> significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
>Try Tax Cut - Home & Business it's about $60 for the Fed version and $25
>for the state. Does the same thing Turbo does but for much less money.
>Available same stores Turbo is sold.
Hmmm. FWIW, I just bought my State & Federal TurboTax (Deluxe
version) and it was $24.99 US, after rebates, plus sales tax on pre
rebate amount. The purchase was at Costco.
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| | From: | Duane Bozarth | | Subject: | Re: Tax prep software? Personal/farm/small business | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:22:55 -0600 |
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| Ron Todd wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:27:23 -0600, Help
> wrote:
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> >Duane Bozarth wrote:
> >> I've not purchased one for several years now...last time I did I swore
> >> I'd buy another Intuit product...any inexpensive alternatives
> >> one can recommend for initial estimating and summarizing prior to final
> >> which will go to the accountant for oversight, etc.? I'm primarily
> >> needing to get reasonable estimates for final estimated tax to pay as
> >> turns out farm income and oil/gas royalties are exceding prior estimates
> >> significantly owing to unexpected price fluctuations during year...
> >Try Tax Cut - Home & Business it's about $60 for the Fed version and $25
> >for the state. Does the same thing Turbo does but for much less money.
> >Available same stores Turbo is sold.
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> Hmmm. FWIW, I just bought my State & Federal TurboTax (Deluxe
> version) and it was $24.99 US, after rebates, plus sales tax on pre
> rebate amount. The purchase was at Costco.
They could pay and I'd not take an Intuit product...well, depending
on how much, of course, even I have limits... :)
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