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From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MACINTAX vs. TURBOTAX
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Date: 28 Dec 90 18:49:55 GMT
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Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston)
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In article <20885.27787187@merrimack.edu> rand@merrimack.edu writes:
>Hmmm, I used the 1989 version of Macintax and it included all of the
>above except for the dubious audit checking. I was very happy with it.

The problem I have with MacinTax is that it is too damned expensive.  I
bought it last year for the first time and it cost something like $80.  Ok,
fine, I'm sure a lot of work went into it.  But then a few weeks ago I get
the notice for the 1990 "upgrade".  They want $50 for it!  That is simply
obscene!  There just can't be that many differences between the 1989 forms
and the 1990 forms to warrant them charging me that much for a wrongly-named
"upgrage".  Given that the price for TurboTax off the shelf is the same as
the "upgrade" for MacinTax, I see no reason not to switch this year.  (Are
you listening, Russ?)

--James Preston