annielaurie's Journal: Tax Time: An E-mail from the Front Lines

An accountant friend has surfaced long enough to write:

. . . taxes have turned into a major pain in the ass. The version of Quickbooks Pro that we have will no longer export to Turbo Tax. Well, actually the new version of Turbo Tax will no longer accept imports from our version. I'm so mad, I could spit nails. We'd have to update to the latest version - at something like $200!!! Fuck that shit. To make things worse, I feel particularly held up because of course I didn't find this out until I tried to actually *do* his taxes. To add insult to injury, I had to download the latest Turbo-Tax updates - taking basically the better part of an hour. You know, I hold off on buying the program until well into the year, just so I don't have to do that shit. They act like everyone on the planet has either DSL or broadband. I don't and it's a major pain in the ass. Plus, you can't close the window while it does it's thing, which I just think is rude. Yeah, I can pull stuff up and cover the window, but I can't minimize the window. So now Intuit is officially on my shit list. I want to write a very nasty letter to the CEO or whoever. You know, the basic rules of accounting haven't changed in a very long time. There's absolutely no reason to force your users into new versions, unless they actually want the new features. It's strictly a revenue generation scam and I resent the hell out of it.