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TurboTax Rap Video

Here is a great TurboTax Rap Video!

Intuit's TurboTax vs H&R Block's TaxCut

As we move full swing into the 2006 tax season, the top two tax preparation software companies are squaring off in a lawsuit over comments about H&R Block in Intuit's $25 million national advertising campain for TurboTax. (read more: here and here)

Stakes are high this year as more and more people are preparing their own taxes at home using these top two software tools.

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TaxBrain - Great Reviews and Comments

TaxBrain has recently been getting a lot of rave reviews.  Here are some of the comments that customers have been saying about their service:

“A Big Thank You! My 10 year old granddaughter was over-zealous with the shredder and reduced my penciled computations and erasures to confetti. There was not enough time to reconstruct the returns and drive into Portland to the main post office. For the first time I tried e-filing and sailed right through your program with 5 minutes to spare! What a positive experience! See you next year, One Grateful Grandma”

Mary Ann M.
Wilsonville, OR

PS: “Your refunds were larger than what I had calculated.”

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“To the men and women of TaxBrain, thanks! I appreciate your cooperation with the IRS in providing an online source for e-filing of our taxes. I used your services to prepare and file our taxes last night. I was impressed with your program. You have already sent notice, that the IRS has acknowledged receipt, to me. The speed of e-filing is amazing. I just wanted to say thanks for making this so much easier.”

Chuck D.
Crawfordville, FL

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”Thank you for the great easy to use federal tax return site. Filing my return was never easier, even when I paid someone to do it for me. Your site was very user friendly.”

Frank J.
Tawas City, MI

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“Your tax center is a first class program and operation. This was my first experience with an automated tax service and I found TaxBrain to be extremely professional and easy to use. I requested help from the TaxBrain team and received a prompt response and solution - on a Sunday evening! You guys are great.

I have discussed your service with several of my friends and will recommend the service to anyone who may be interested.”

Bob B.
Punta Gorda, FL

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“Just completed electronic filing of my federal and state taxes. You made it very simple and straightforward. Thanks very much.”

Larry E.
Alexandria, VA

Complete Tax - PCWorld Rateed Most Improved for 2005

PCWorld recently rated CompleteTax the most improved Web Tax Preparation Site.  Here is a snippet of what they had to say:

Far and away the most improved site is CompleteTax. The interview in particular is dramatically better, allowing you to skip many irrelevant screens and combining others into a very nice package.

In addition, CompleteTax has corrected several problems we noted last year. It has added a bulletin board for answers to tax support queries (previously, everything was done by e-mail, which can be a problem if your ISP's spam blocker is overly aggressive). Also, you no longer have to enter the previous year's data before starting this year's return (although e-filers still have to enter the 2003 return data at the end of the process in order to "electronically sign" the return, part of the IRS e-filing procedure).

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CompleteTax is best for those who haven't used tax software or Web sites. There's lots of help and some very good navigation tools.

Read the full article here

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Online Tax Preparation Software

Web-based tax preparation services have a few benefits over desktop applications for certain types of users. So, if you have avoided doing your taxes online until now, you should start considering online tax preparation.

Web-based tax software options have been increasing in popularity. TurboTax is the best selling online tax preparation software with over 4 milliion users.

You can choose from many online tax preparation software, such as H&R Block, CompleteTax and TaxBrain.  Any of these options are great choices.

There are three main benefits to using Web based tax preparation software.  First Web tax preparation software is typically lower priced than computer software based tax preparation packages.  Second, you don't have to worry about annual upgrades to keep up with the ever changing tax codes.  Thrid, online tax preparation allow travelers to work on tax returns anywhere in the world where they can access the Web.

Most online tax preparation packages offer free trials so you can test out the service and make sure it will work for you.