CompleteTax Premium Software

Complete Tax Premium offers all the features of Basic plus the ability to:
Itemize your deductions
If your personal and family expenses add up to more than the standard deduction for your filing status, you should itemize your deductions instead of claiming the standard deduction. Read More

Report your Investments
Reporting interest and dividends on investments is very simple. We can also help you if you've bought or sold any investments during the year, or if you have the type of investments with special rules. Read More

Deduct Homeowner Taxes
As a homeowner, you can deduct a portion of your real estate taxes and your qualified mortgage interest payments on your home.

Additional Features  Include:

• Free E-filing

• Single or Married, Filing Jointly

• W-2 Wages, Import Available

• Interest Income

• Children and Dependents

• Any Filing Status

• Mortgage Interest

• Donations to Charity

• Business Investments & Stock Sales

• Import Income and Expenses

CompleteTax Premium has it all - total coverage of all federal forms and any filing status, plus support for self-employment, investments, and rental properties. Advantage to using the premium edition include, getting the biggest refund for self-employed and real estate investors!

CompleteTax Premium is ideal for those who:
Need to track depreciation and amortization

Are self-employed or own a business
Are freelancers or contractors
Have rental or investment properties
Need to report K-1 income
Have income from royalties, stock dividends, or estates and trusts

CompleteTax Premium also includes at no extra charge:
W-2 and stock/bond transaction importing

Auto-importing of last year's return
Advanced Help features

CharityDeductions® non-cash donation valuator
Two technical support chat sessions included!

CompleteTax Premium

Online tax software is our attention to the Web for returns. All the major programs H&R Block At Home (formerly TaxCut), TaxACT, and TurboTax have long had Web-based versions that work like their desktop counterparts, letting you save partial returns and finish them in multiple sessions. Switching to the Web lets us compare the big players to a fourth product.

Exceptional help system. Good coverage of tax topics. Some import options for payroll and investment data
Confusing interface and navigational tools. Time-consuming review process
CompleteTax offers a framework that will help you complete your 1040 and assorted forms and schedules. It's got a respected pedigree and an excellent help system, but its interface and navigation system make tax filing slow going.

CompleteTax offers some tools upfront to help you get launched.

CCH CompleteTax Premium Software Review
Fairly priced
Best for those who have solid tax knowledge
This site offers a fairly priced choice for tax-savvy filers who don't need much help.

For preparing your tax return, CCH's CompleteTax is a lot like TaxBrain, at half the price. Novices and worriers may find themselves taking longer than they would with other sites because they'll likely have to do more research to understand many of the questions they're answering--CompleteTax doesn't place very much instruction or guidance on the questionnaires themselves. CompleteTax Premium is best suited for people who have a solid working knowledge of taxes and are confident preparing their own returns.
 

CompleteTax imports W-2s from W-2 express, ADP, and Ceridian, which saves time. The site offers a W-2 input screen that, of those in the services reviewed, looks the most like an actual W-2 form.

CompleteTax though the site design has gotten sleeker and more sophisticated-looking. Clearly, when it comes to taxes, function is more important than form.

The tabs across the top are very good for navigation--it was fairly easy to jump around to different parts of the return. When you're not sure where to go, the search tool is helpful: When I couldn't figure out where to enter student loan interest, typing a few keywords into the search function of the help column quickly produced what I needed to know.

There is little up-front assistance on more complicated matters such as determining how to classify a stock sale or what may be included under "other deductible expenses," though the Tax Guide 2009 answers many questions. Users that can't find their answer will have to pony up a $5 charge just to chat online with a support person.

CompleteTax is a good choice if your an experienced user also considering TaxBrain. At $30 for a federal return and $20 for a state one, CompleteTax is fairly priced.

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