. TurboTax coaches you every step of the way and double checks your return as you go to handle even the toughest tax situations, so you can be confident you’re getting every dollar you deserve.
Every year it gets even easier. As a returning customer, TurboTax will automatically transfer last year’s data to help ensure accuracy and save you time. Up-to-date with the latest tax & health care related laws—so you can be confident your taxes will be done right. Help along the way—get answers to your product questions, so you won’t get stuck. Your information is safeguarded – TurboTax uses encryption technology, so your tax data is protected while it’s e-filed to IRS and state agencies. No Tax Knowledge Needed - TurboTax will ask you easy questions to get to know you and fill in all the right tax forms for you - TurboTax will automatically import your information from last year’s TurboTax return to help save time and increase accuracy. Processor:.
For PC: Pentium 4 or Later/Athlon or Later. For Mac: Multi core Intel Processor with 64-bit Support. Operating Systems:. For PC: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 or latest)/ Windows 7(Service Pack1 or latest) /Windows 8/Windows 8.1/Windows 10. Administrative rights required. Windows XP not supported. For Mac: Mac OS X v10.9 or later 64-bit required.
Monitor:. 1024x768 or higher recommended. RAM:. For PC: 1 GB or more recommended. For Mac: 1 GB.
Internet Connection:. 56 Kbps modem (Broadband connection highly recommended). Required for product updates. Hard Disk Space:. For PC: 650 MB for TurboTax (plus up to 4.5 GB for Microsoft.NET 4.5.2 client if not already installed). For Mac: 650 MB for Federal product.
If any updates are available, click the Update Now button to install them. Or click ”More info” to see details about each update and select specific updates to install. When Software Update says that your Mac is up to date, macOS and all of its apps are also up to date. Quicken 2019 for Windows imports data from Quicken for Windows 2010 or newer, Microsoft Money 2008 and 2009 (for Deluxe and higher). Quicken 2019 for Mac imports data from Quicken for Windows 2010 or newer, Quicken for Mac 2015 or newer, Quicken for Mac 2007, Quicken Essentials for Mac, Banktivity.
Printer:. For PC: Any Windows compatible inkjet or laser printer. For Mac: Any Macintosh-compatible inkjet or laser printer. Third Party Software:.
Win: Microsoft.NET 4.5.2 included with TurboTax Installer. Adobe Reader 11 or higher. Administrative rights required. CD-ROM Drive required. Note: State preparation and printing is included in this version.
State E-file is available at an additional charge. Internet access required. Not for use by paid preparers. Showing reviews 1-10 of 16.
TurboTax provides an easy-to-use application to complete IRS Tax forms. Posted by Kenneth D Anderson on 10th Mar 2018 Side note: There's no need to get the premier version even if you have investment income, deluxe has all those forms, so only get premier if you find the extra help for investments really is worth the extra cost. Works very well for me. I've been using TurboTax. Posted by James Mcinnis on 10th Mar 2018 Was a great way to get our taxes done and I plan to use it again next year. Had some minor issues here and there with potential software bugs, and was very skeptical of the forum based tech support system, but it actually worked quite well, surprised me.
Wish the state e-file was included but it was only an extra $20, so used it for the convenience. We have received our refunds already and I am very pleased with the overall experience. Thanks a lot TurboTax!.
Used for many years, no real complaints Posted by George C. On 10th Mar 2018 This was my fourth year of using the annual version of this product. It's totally user friendly. It makes tax return preparation painless. I itemize deductions. I don't ever want to go back to paying high tax preparation fees when this program lets me complete my own returns in less time than it took with a well known tax prep company at a cost that is only about ten percent of what I had been paying for tax return prep.
My federal tax refund was deposited ten days after efiling my return this year. No issues with Windows 10 Posted by Amazon Customer on 10th Mar 2018 Easy to use and way cheaper than a paid tax preparer.
If you use this product every year like I have most of your information is transferred so you don't have to do a lot of retyping. Easy simple questions to guide you through step-by-step. I e-filed Federal for no cost, but I expected one free state e-file with this program but I didn't get it. I had to pay an extra $19 to e-file the state but at any rate it's still cheaper than going to H & R Block. Well worth it Posted by Irene Johansen on 10th Mar 2018 I've used Turbo Tax for over 20 years. It is now such a streamlined process that for the last two years, I have gotten my taxes done - both federal and state - in under 2 hours!!
And mine is nothing simple - itemizing many categories. A few years ago, I got a letter from the IRS about an issue that could have led to audit. However, I went right to the Turbo Tax website - found the issue that was raised - and TT printed out a form letter to send to the IRS documenting exactly why the calculations were correct. The IRS concluded that everything had been filed properly and dropped any further audit.
It is so easy to use!. This makes tax return prep easy, even for itemizing deducations.
Posted by Decorator333 on 10th Mar 2018 I love TurboTax, but next year I am going to wait the sale they have every year. I ordered it too early this year and ended up paying $15 more than if I had waited. I could have reordered it an sent this one back, and I should have, but I just was too busy to mess with it besides I probably would have had to pay a shipping fee and then it would not have been worth it. I have been using this program for many years now and never had an issue. It is easy for almost anyone to use and a lot cheaper than having taxes done by those tax companies. Easy Peasy Tax Form Prep Even for Dummies Posted by Susan on 10th Mar 2018 Do note that while this edition does include Efile of the Federal taxes, and includes filling out one state's taxes, if you want to Efile state as well (and your state supports that), it costs another $19.95. It is so easy to use Posted by Stinawired on 10th Mar 2018 I've been using TurboTax for more than 20 years, and I am always pleased with how easy it makes an unpleasant task.
I especially like the ability to import fund transactions as I had a lot of those this year. TurboTax asks the right questions to make sure that you file accurately and don't miss any deductions you're entitled to. Love TurboTax! Posted by Lori L. On 10th Mar 2018 It is as good as the ads claim. The software walked me through everything in no time.
At every point it is very easy to amend anything you have done wrong and good access to explain what the tax laws are on different issues. I was worried about using it on my Mac as the software I have used for the past few years on the Windows unit I had wouldn't. The other company said their's would but after many tries with their tech support it wouldn't and I got my money back. TurboTax had instructions for Mac on their web site and they were perfect.
It loaded in minutes. In fact the time I had set aside to get the software installed completed my returns. I highly recommend. Makes the best of an unpleasant task, state Efile extra Posted by S. Lionel on 10th Mar 2018 I'm not going to pay to e-file State returns, but I do wish T.T./Intuit would at least include the computations for the State returns - 5, not just one. That is NOT a complaint - it is a wish list item, so you can settle down Intuit customer service ( I figure you monitor these looking for people who give you a 1-star because of the font you use). Showing reviews 1-10 of 16.
MacOS, the operating system previously known as Mac OS X, is beautiful, stable, and typically attached to a $1000+ MacBook / iMac. If we want to run macOS on a Windows PC, without the very particular hardware required for Hackintosh, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the next best thing. And, best of all, it won't cost a dime. Here's how to install the latest macOS High Sierra on a VMware or Virtualbox virtual machine.
Unblock any international website, browse anonymously, and download movies and Mp3 with complete safety with CyberGhost,. Then again, we might just be curious about Apple's operating system and want to see what the fuss is all about. Whatever the reason, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the cheapest way to try out the latest OS from Cupertino. Cheapest as in 'free.'
Sure beats buying a four-figure MacBook Pro. In case you are not familiar with virtual machines, it's a way to emulate an entirely different computer system within our PC. For more information, you can check out our guide: We have also covered how to create a Windows Virtual Machine, both in Windows and Linux operating systems.
Creating a Windows virtual machine is exceedingly simple. It is arguably easier than installing Windows on our PC.
VBoxManage setextradata 'macOS' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 After we have successfully entered all the commands, without any errors, we can close the command line, open VirtualBox and start the Mac OS X virtual machine. At first, it will show some code.then a gray screen for a few seconds, and finally the macOS High Sierra installation. Later on the guide, we will see the full procedure on our Mac OS X virtual machine. AMD CPUs As we mentioned, the fact that Apple computers exclusively use Intel CPUs makes it harder to run a Mac OS X virtual machine on an AMD CPU. Harder, but not impossible. Although there is no High Sierra version yet, we managed to find a macOS Sierra machine on that will work on AMD and tried it with an FX 6300 CPU. The same method is supposed to work on the latest Ryzen CPUs, but we didn't have a sample machine to try it.
As for older processors, it will only work on AMD CPUs that support SSE 4.1 or SSE 4.2 instructions. We can check this on, by inputting our CPU model in the search box. On the results, we just need to check the Features. If we find SSE 4.1 or SSE 4.2, we 're golden. To download the Sierra machine, visit.
At the bottom of the first message, you will find a zip file and a Dropbox link. The compressed file contains a torrent, to download the machine. Since the file is quite large (almost 7GB), we chose the torrent method, but you can pick whichever fits you best. Once we download it, we have to decompress it in our desired location and move onto the next step.
VMware Workstation Player This time we won't need to apply any patches to VMware Workstation Player, opposed to Intel's method we described above. Thus, we can use VMware version 14, which is the latest. We can find it.
If you already have version 12, you can still follow the steps below; there is no need to upgrade VMware. Create a new virtual machine We will start by creating a new virtual machine. Choose 'I will install the operating system later' and press Next.
On the next screen, tick 'Other' and pick 'Other 64-bit' respectively. Here, we can give our machine the desired name and choose a location.
Hit Next once again. Store virtual disk as a single file.and click on 'Customize Hardware.' We advise you to use at least 50-65% of your available RAM and two CPU cores.
For example, if you have 8GB RAM as we do, go for 4GB on the virtual machine. In the end, we press Finish. Add the hard drive Now it's time to add our virtual drive. Click on 'Edit virtual machine settings.' Remove the Hard Disk (IDE) and add a new drive. Choose 'Hard Disk SATA Use an existing virtual disk.'
Next, hit Browse and locate the file you downloaded from amd-osx.com. You should move the file to your desired location before you pick it. If you decide to move it afterward, you'll have to add it again on the virtual machine.
Then, press Finish. If we have VMware 14, the program will ask to convert the image to the newest format. We press Convert, except if we want it to be compatible with older versions of VMware. Finally, we press OK. We can now start the engine.
We will be greeted by a black screen, where we need to press any button to continue. On the next screen, we hit Enter. We'll see another black screen with some running code for a few minutes. No matter how long it takes, we wait patiently. Even if it appears to be stuck, give it at least 10 minutes before you try to restart the machine. At the end of this process, macOS Sierra will eventually show up.
We can now move on to the first time set up. Setting up macOS High Sierra The hard part is long gone. At this point, no matter which way we chose to create the Mac OS X virtual machine, we should be on the Welcome screen. We select our country and click on 'Continue.' If we can't find our country, we can check the 'Show All' checkbox. We can also choose a different keyboard layout, or leave the default US.
Given that we went through all this trouble to create a Mac OS X virtual machine, it's a safe guess that we don't have another Mac device to transfer information. We can sign in with our Apple ID if we have one and feel like it, but we can always skip this step and continue. After reading the Software License Agreement, in its entirety of course, if we agree, we proceed. We select a name and an account name.
If we didn't use our Apple ID, we need to create a password as well. We choose our time zone.and continue with the express set up. We can optionally choose the Customize Settings, to tweak the location and diagnostic options. We might want to uncheck the options to send information to Apple. After all, working on a Mac OS X virtual machine, we are far from the typical macOS user.
Our Mac OS X virtual machine with macOS is ready. Install VMware tools for Mac OS X Everything seems perfect on the Mac OS X virtual machine, but even on a powerful computer, the mouse pointer might seem 'heavy' to drag. This is easy to fix, by installing VMware tools.
First, we must download, and extract its contents. From the VMware Workstation Player menu we select Player Removable Devices CD/DVD (SATA) Settings. On the next window, we choose 'Use ISO image file' and click on Browse. We navigate to All Tool (new) folder that we downloaded, pick the VM Tool.iso and click Open. Check the 'Connected' box. Now, double click on VMware Tools disk on the upper right corner. Double-click on Install VMware Tools.
Press Continue.and Install. The installation will ask for our account's password. We confirm our request. Finally, the VMware Tools installation is over, and we need to restart our PC.
Now, the Mac OS X Virtual machine will run much smoother. Troubleshooting Running a Mac OS X virtual machine is not free of problems, and we may encounter one or more of the following. Mac OS X option missing in VMware If we can't find the 'Apple Mac OS X' option when creating a virtual machine.it means that we didn't install the patch correctly.
We need to rerun the patcher, always as an administrator, and pay attention for any error messages. Error message: Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation If when starting the Mac OS X virtual machine we get the message 'Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation'.we need in our BIOS/UEFI. Unrecoverable error on VMware If we get a 'VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)' error.then we didn't edit the VMX file correctly, adding.
Smc.version = '0'.at the bottom of it, or we failed to save the file after adding the line. Endless code lines on VirtualBox If VirtualBox doesn't seem to move on the first boot, then we might have failed to enter the commands correctly. Repeat the command line part of the guide and try again. Did you like the Mac OS X virtual machine?
A virtual machine might not be the real thing - it is, after all, an operating system running on top of our operating system. But, on a powerful computer, it can be pretty close. Did you like your new Mac OS X virtual machine? Did it work well on your PC and were you able to run the Mac OS X exclusive software you always wanted? Leave us a comment. Relevant Posts.
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