{"id":799,"date":"2009-02-18T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-02-18T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:26:38","slug":"taxes-filed-beware-turbotax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Taxes filed, beware TurboTax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to have my taxes done and out of the way. This year (2008) was far simpler than 2006, or 2007. Back in college I had up to seven simultaneous jobs. The paperwork was painful. This year I&#8217;m down to two W-2s, my Roth IRA will be maxed out ($5,000 contribution limit, FYI) and life is good. Oh, and since I was such a charitable guy (donations to United Way), Colorado owes me $200. Sweet.<\/p>\n<p>But, I learned one painful lesson: if you have started a return with <a href=\"http:\/\/turbotax.intuit.com\/\">TurboTax<\/a> you cannot downgrade to a lesser version of the product. This makes <em>some<\/em> sense because you&#8217;re given &#8220;advice&#8221; with some of the advanced products. But, TurboTax will not let you start over, reset, or downgrade. You have to create a <em>brand new account<\/em> which means your prior-year returns are no longer accessible from the same account. So I can go all the way through the process of filing, up to the point of hitting &#8216;submit&#8217; (and maximize deductions, receive advice, etc.) and then start over for free.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t make this up, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/turbotax.intuit.com\/support\/kb\/logging-in\/tto-login\/2659.html\">TurboTax FAQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once you&#8217;ve started preparing your tax return with TurboTax Online, you can upgrade  your TurboTax Online product to Deluxe, Home &#038; Business or Premier to take advantage of the extra features and tax guidance available in those products. After you&#8217;ve upgraded to one of these versions, your tax information will transfer to the upgraded version automatically. However, to switch back to a lower-priced version, you&#8217;ll need to start a new return with a different User ID, as there is no option to switchback to the previous version once you have upgraded your product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad to have my taxes done and out of the way. This year (2008) was far simpler than 2006, or 2007. Back in college I had up to seven simultaneous jobs. The paperwork was painful. This year I&#8217;m down to two W-2s, my Roth IRA will be maxed out ($5,000 contribution limit, FYI) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}