I’ve been using TurboTax for several years and have been happy with it. I’m switching to Tax Cut this year because of the activation. I don’t want problems when I build my new computer and I have a general feeling about voting with my wallet against activation. C dilla is mainly to enforce the activation. I don’t think Intuit would be stupid enough to have it send back personal information.

Online might be an option since you can access it from any computer and they save your information.

TurboTax or Tax Cut will lead you to any deduction you are legally allowed to make. If you get too creative it can be rough if you go in for an audit. And if you were too creative when they audit you they will put you higher on the priority list for another audit. I think it is smarter to play it straight. I wouldn’t be surprised to find the IRS had set their computers to recognize forms submitted by ItsDeductable if it is too prone to have you deduct things you aren’t entitled to. I know they go after certain tax preparers who are too creative.