TurboTax, TaxCut, and TaxACT Compared Side By Side

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Over the President's Day long weekend, besides reading the book A Fool and His Money, I also did my taxes.

In a previous post Free E-File Is NOT Free, I said I'm going to try TaxACT this year because it's substantially cheaper than TurboTax and TaxCut. A couple weeks ago, I got TaxCut Standard for $1 at Dollar Tree. TurboTax also sent me a trial CD some time last year. With all three major tax prep software on hand, I was able to do a side-by-side comparison.

The tested versions are (all on Windows): » Read more …