If you’re looking for a detailed tax program which will enable you to enter every minute detail about your accounts, your receipts and your deductions, TurboTax Premier is probably the ideal tax software for you. That sort of detail requires patience, and TurboTax Premier asks for a lot of patience. While I was doing this year’s taxes, I was required to download nearly 16 updates, plus the program for my specific state, and then while it was downloading all of this, this message kept popping up, “Checking for updates is taking longer than expected. Do you still wish to continue?”

If you’re one of the millions of people who decided to use TurboTax last year, and factors like your living situation and job haven’t changed at all, you can actually import all of your previous year’s tax information into this current program. This act alone will save you half the time it takes to go through the total process.

In general, it’s easy to say that Turbo Tax is actually one of the more comprehensive tax programs out there. Not only is it very comprehensive, it also provides a substantial amount of guidance and information for users who have questions. However, at nearly $80, it’s not nearly as cheap as some of the other offerings out there. Fortunately, you just might make that $80 back by all of the deductions that TurboTax will tell you about.