TaxACT prepares, prints, and e-files US
federal and state income taxes. Includes tax planning. TaxACT
provides a free (as in beer) standard (crippled) version which can be
upgraded to the deluxe version (uncrippled) for $20 with state or $14
without. Federal e-file is included with the deluxe version. The most
annoying feature missing from the standard version is the ability to
import last years data. If anything will get you to plunk down the $20,
that will. Other than that, everything is pretty much as advertised.
Application Details:
| Version: | 2008 Deluxe |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.taxact.com/ |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.1.19 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything works during data gathering and calculation. Printed both federal and state returns without error using HP Deskjet D2430
What does not
E-filing does not work. Stalls at "Opening a secure connection" info box. Becomes unresponsive.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Tax review flash movies.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Application works perfectly until you actually try to connect to e-file. After all isn't this the point of Tax software. Printed return worked flawlessly so if you file via mail then then program is perfect. Ed Note - efile requires outgoing ftp. Make sure that is enabled in your firewall. This requires loading the iptables_conntrack_ftp kernel module. I'm not sure where the GUI config for this is, but on EL5 you can edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config for boot time. To load until the next boot, "modprobe iptables_conntrack_ftp"
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 15 2009 | 1.1.19 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Whit Blauvelt | ||
| Show | zz Do not use | Feb 11 2009 | 1.1.14 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Current | Fedora 9 x86_64 | Jan 30 2009 | 1.1.14 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 02 2009 | 1.1.13 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Spence | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 16 2009 | 1.1.12 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Ian Turner |
