Turbo Tax: I have been using this product since the 1980s and have always opted to purchase the cd. This year it appears the cd is no longer available; download only. Additionally, to...

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

I have been using this product since the 1980s and have always opted to purchase the cd. This year it appears the cd is no longer available; download only. Additionally, to buy directly from Turbo Tax or retailers like Best Buy one must open an account. I am up to my ears in accounts. And each one creates spam. Anyone here miffed by this chance?

Caribou Loc: St. Louis, MO

I use it but I didn't know that. Aggravating.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yup! I hate subscriptions for most software, save Norton, Carbonite, and another one or two.
We just bought the 2023 Turbo Tax CD at Costco. That's not quite a subscription per se though.
Turbo Tax uses my old account set years ago. Not a new "account" each year.
None of my photo editors are subscription.

I misplaced my Quicken 2007 CD.... couldn't install it on a new computer.
I found someone in Washington state selling a 2007 CD.
Bought it from them for less than a year's "subscription".
Happy camper again! It totally meets my needs.
(I now have the CD files stored in multiple places.....)

I think my oldest <very> active software is WS-FTP'95.
I have that stored in multiple places also.

Paloviejo

I bought my copy of TurboTax at Staples as usual. A real disc not a download.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Switched to H&R Block about 10 years go, found errors on the Turbo returns, download each year, I don't seem to get any spam from them.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

bobmcculloch wrote:

Switched to H&R Block about 10 years go, found errors on the Turbo returns, download each year, I don't seem to get any spam from them.

Same here, when Turbo Tax took investments out of the TT version I was using and raised the price, I switched to H&R Block and have never looked back. The interview process took a little getting used to, but wasn’t difficult. And it’s less than $40 for fed and state and accepts my financial info from its custodian.

Minitman Loc: Centreville, Virginia

I got the CD along with a download this year as always. I use a Mac is it possible they discontinued the CD for windows users? Wouldn't make sense to me just a thought.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Minitman wrote:

I got the CD along with a download this year as always. I use a Mac is it possible they discontinued the CD for windows users? Wouldn't make sense to me just a thought.

Nope, I just recently purchased a CD at Costco - loads on Windows or Mac.

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

Billbobboy42 wrote:

I have been using this product since the 1980s and have always opted to purchase the cd. This year it appears the cd is no longer available; download only. Additionally, to buy directly from Turbo Tax or retailers like Best Buy one must open an account. I am up to my ears in accounts. And each one creates spam. Anyone here miffed by this chance?

Just located TT 2023 CD at Amazon.com.

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

I have a fairly simple tax return, and have used "FreeTaxUSA" for a number of years. It really works great for me.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Billbobboy42 wrote:

I have been using this product since the 1980s and have always opted to purchase the cd. This year it appears the cd is no longer available; download only. Additionally, to buy directly from Turbo Tax or retailers like Best Buy one must open an account. I am up to my ears in accounts. And each one creates spam. Anyone here miffed by this chance?

I switched to a CPA 30 years ago!!! it was so easy stop by his/her office on the home from work drop off papers a few days later stop and pick up.
Enter E Filing stop, sign forms, go home and wait for refund conformation Direct dep. No longer have to do any of that 😉 Getting old ain't so bad 😉😉

srt101fan

Manglesphoto wrote:

I switched to a CPA 30 years ago!!! it was so easy stop by his/her office on the home from work drop off papers a few days later stop and pick up.
Enter E Filing stop, sign forms, go home and wait for refund conformation Direct dep. No longer have to do any of that 😉 Getting old ain't so bad 😉😉

I got professional tax help some years back but came to a different conclusion than you did. Getting pro help was not cheap and I still had to assemble and organize all the paperwork to give to the tax preparer. I decided it wasn't worth it for me. I guess it all depends on the complexity of your tax return.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

srt101fan wrote:

I got professional tax help some years back but came to a different conclusion than you did. Getting pro help was not cheap and I still had to assemble and organize all the paperwork to give to the tax preparer. I decided it wasn't worth it for me. I guess it all depends on the complexity of your tax return.

Definitely.
Ours is very simple.
Turbo Tax works well for us. I have these forms, these numbers are on them.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Manglesphoto wrote:

I switched to a CPA 30 years ago!!! it was so easy stop by his/her office on the home from work drop off papers a few days later stop and pick up.
Enter E Filing stop, sign forms, go home and wait for refund conformation Direct dep. No longer have to do any of that 😉 Getting old ain't so bad 😉😉

Me, too, about 1988.

The CPA was tax deductible. The CPA knows a lot more about the details of the tax stuff than I did so I expect I could easily miss things trying to do it with canned software. The tax information gets assembled daily with the farm stand reciept paperwork and the checkbook.

My CPA retired and sold the business. The price went up and the quality went down. The new guy wasn't used to farm accounts. Had to get an extension and my taxes weren't done until September. I switched to my wife's CPA who does an excellent job for less than the first one. And we got a refund when re-filing that year.

W9OD Loc: Wisconsin

I have been using TT for several years. Started downloading it a few years ago. Last year, they told me my MacBook Pro was too old😊. Mentioned that to my wife, she said go get a new computer!!😳. I was out the door.