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Deduction Pro
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$19.99
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| Part No: | B0000AZVVM |
| Manufacturer: | HR Block Financial |
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| Customer Rating: | 1.0 / 5.0 |
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| Don't Waste Your Money | 2010-02-10 | 1 / 5 |
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| The application doesn't function as it did in previous years. The interface is not very impressive at all. Once you complete entering your donations and save the file, it is practically impossible (following the instructions) to import your contributions into H&R Block @ Home Deluxe 2009. I was absolutely stunned. Now, i'm afraid to use the software since it is so buggy. I'm mailing it back to H&R Block in Kansas City. |
| Worse than useless | 2009-03-23 | 1 / 5 |
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I had done a lot of work entering deductions from the prior year. The New Year came, and I started getting ready to prepare my taxes. I fired up Deduction Pro to make sure I'd entered all my deductions, and the program advised me that an update was available. Fine, I thought, I'd get the latest version. Apparently the manufacturer's website thought I was trying to pull a fast one and use the program for another year without paying for another license, because, when the "update" was finished, my carefully-entered record of deductions for the prior calendar year, for which I was about to prepare my taxes, was DELETED! No trace of any of the work I'd done! That'll teach me to even appear as though I'm trying to use the program for another year!
I had fortunately kept records, and was able to enter my deductions the "old-fashioned" way, entry by entry, into my TaxCut software.
By the way, why does this program not come out in January, so that a person could keep track of deductions AS THEY ARE MADE, instead of trying to reconstruct deductions from records during the fourth quarter of the year in which they were made?
I wish there were a "negative stars" rating for this software. It cost me more in my time than the value of the money i paid for it. |
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| I bought this software on the recommendation of my father who uses it regularly. I was astonished at the price on jumped on the purchase. To my dismay I purchased a copy for Tax Year 2003. This information should have been listed in the details on the product. Glad I didn't pay too much for it. |
| Awful software | 2008-02-02 | 1 / 5 |
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| Very poorly done. No ability to search for an item type (e.g. 'gym bag') -- need to poke around the categories to see if you find it. Entered items in the 'Other' category and it duplicated them every time I saved, so I ended up with many copies of the same entry. Makes me question other H&R Block software. |
| Better than nothing I guess | 2008-01-13 | 3 / 5 |
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I have to agree with the other reviewers... there's not enough space to enter all of the information about a charity, the tables are limited and not searchable (though categorically organized), and the error messages I've received so far ("The charity name was over 37 characters" yeah, so? you want them shorter or something?; "An Error Occurred While Updating. Please check that you have an Internet connection and administrator rights. Please try updating later.") don't really explain how to resolve the problem.
...but what I do like is that it lets me enter all of the donations I've been collecting all year long and I can start getting them entered before I've received my W-2s and 1099's. Gives me a head start while I'm waiting for tax forms. Plus the most common items are already in there and have estimated values. I do think Intuit's equivalent software has a better way of evaluating the value of items, and will reward you better for your donations in the tax return. ...but then I would have to use TurboTax which I was unhappy with for TY2006 and TY2005.
This software is fine as a free TaxCut feature, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it. |
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