If you buy the software from your local retail store you’ll need to make sure you purchase the version suited to your specific needs. Home & Business adds options for self-employment income. Premier includes forms for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and rental properties. Deluxe is meant for tax filers who own a home, have children, and itemize deductions. Basic handles your return if you don’t itemize deductions and requires you to purchase a state return. Each offers increasingly more sophisticated sets of features designed to fill your specific tax needs. TurboTax comes in four different flavors: Basic, Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Business. Good Guidance: TurboTax 2012 helps you navigate your personal tax needs with clear questions and a minimum of heartburn. (Which is to say that Intuit has done a great job of migrating a desktop app to iOS.) As always TurboTax helps you make quick work of filing your personal taxes and is now, for the very first time, offered as a free download from Apple’s Mac App Store. TurboTax Premier 2012 is essentially the mirror image, in a desktop application, of Intuit’s new iPad version of TurboTax.
