XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.taxes   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > Dennis  wrote:   
   >>>True to their marketing roots, Intuit apparently says if you buy TurboTax   
   >>>Desktop 2025 and can't install it because you're on Windows 10, Intuit will   
   >>>offer you TurboTax Online Premium at no extra cost, including:   
   >>> 1 federal return   
   >>> 1 state return   
   >>>But if I had wanted to use insecure online software, I never would have   
   >>>purchased the desktop versions in the first place over all these years.   
   >>   
   >> I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they drop the desktop version   
   >> completely.   
   >   
   >   In our country - The Netherlands - we have a web-version already for   
   > twelve years. Just to many platforms to make platform-specific versions   
   > for. What use is a Windows version if people have an Android tablet or   
   > an iPad or a ChromeBook or ... ad infinitum.   
   >   
   >   Like Carlos mentioned for Spain, ours is also free (as in gratis) and   
   > provided by the Dutch tax office ('Belastingdienst').   
   >   
   >   As mentioned, the 'offline' 'privacy' argument is bogus. because they   
   > already have the 'private' information or will get it anyway.   
   >   
   >   N.B. We started with a PC version [1] which was supplied on 3.5"   
   > diskette and when you were done filing your tax return, you just sent   
   > back the diskette in the provided envelope. *Those* were the days! :-)   
   >   
   > [1] The PC version started at least in 2001 (I still have the backup to   
   > prove it! :-)), but perhaps earlier. Not sure if there was only a   
   > Windows version and a Linux version or perhaps earlier also a DOS   
   > version.   
      
   Intuit isn't part of the government so they do not already have your   
   private personal financial data unless you choose to give it to them.   
      
   And nobody would do that, which is why the "online" version has huge risk.   
      
   Although maybe someone who has used the "online" web version of Intuit's   
   TurboTax can explain to the rest of us how exactly they secure your data?   
      
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