TurboTax - Linux?

[psnider at adelphia.net]

---- Michael Carney <mc-al34luc at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:36:40 -0600, Paul wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:38 -0600, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > Of course. And Turbo Tax for the Web (and all of the other 
> >> > companies) also
> >> > use https. I guess the question is: a secure protocol _to what_?
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > -- 
> >> > Matthew Miller            mattdm at mattdm.org     
> >>    
> >> Back to the original quesiton, have people tried running
> >> Turbo Tax under wine?  I was going to try it out just for
> >> grins, but have not gotten to it yet.
> > 
> > Well I've tried TaxCut ... it installs fine, but the auto update feature
> > does not work and there are font issues.
> > 
> > I don't personally trust TurboTax because of what they pulled with
> > writing to the MBR (or was the Partition table) a couple years back.
> > TaxCut just asks you "Is this a legally registered copy?" you click YES
> > and it goes on to install ... no CD key or anything.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Paul Berger
> 
> Caution re: Taxcut 2004: I've used it happily for years, and this year
> was the first year I encountered a problem which resulted in my
> requesting a refund. Believe it or not, it calculated my taxes
> incorrectly. Specifically, the value it generated based upon my
> line 42 of 1040 didn't match what I came up with by hand using the
> tax computation worksheet on page 72 of the 1040 instructions.
> 
> Yikes.
> 
> Regardless of what tax prep program you're using, you might
> want to check to see if the value it produces for line 43 based upon
> line 42 of 1040 matches what you'd have come up with had you done it
> yourself.
> 
> 

I hope you've contacted TaxCut about the miscalulation problem.  It would be interesting to hear their response.

-pete