Tax Filing (was Re: App Question)

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> > machine for TurboTax.  After last year's TurboTax DRM 
> fiasco, I vowed to
> > never send another penny to Intuit. 
> 
> My wife is a professional preparer. Last year's macromedia c-dilla 
> nonsense was the last straw for Intuit* as far as we are 
> concerned.  We 
> switched, mid-year, to TaxAct and haven't looked back. She's still on 
> Win98 for now.

When TurboTax insisted I upgrade to IE 5 and wouldn't take no for an answer
(literally, even though I answered "NO" it went ahead and installed IE 5)
and "upgraded" me from IE 6 to IE 5 I quit using them.  I have no use for
that type of "party line".

My problem with online tax computation is that you have to give out your
*very* sensitive information (I don't like giving it to the IRS, either) to
fill out the forms.  I have no clue as to how well their firewall is set up,
and I'm not about to trust my data to a system that *could* be running
Windoze.


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom Condon
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