Mac Marginalization--No Mac Version of TaxCut for 2005 Tax Year

H&R Block has yet to announce the availability its 2005 version of TaxCut tax preparation software. One of us switched from Intuit's MacInTax (now Turbo Tax for Mac) to TaxCut a number of years ago because it was cheaper and, in at least one opinion, much better.

We wondered why we weren't being dunned already to pre-order TaxCut for 2005. A trip to the TaxCut Web site reveals that one can pre-order TaxCut for Windows in all three editions but none of them list a Mac version. Apparently, H&R Block has dropped the Mac version for 2005 according to a reader post on MacInTouch.

One year we used the Windows version of TaxCut with VirtualPC to show it could be done and save some money. It looks like that may be our only option for 2005 since our returns are too complicated for a Web-based version. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox]