---- Michael Carney <mc-al34luc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx > >> > >> 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
