I used to use TurboTax but they pissed me off. Now I use H&R Block (formerly called "TaxCut".) Their federal basic version cost $15 and includes up to 5 e-files. TaxCut used to sell the basic version at DollarTree stores with one free e-file, but I haven't seen it there in a few years.
Wally Mart usually sells the H&R Block product for $5 less than other places.
I used to use
TurboTax, but they started playing games with the versions - if you had investment income, charitiable and other deductions, or had to deal with possible AMT issues, you had to upgrade to their uber-premium version which cost several times as much as their basic version. And for a year, they instituted an on-line activation process (allegedly to combat piracy) that seemed particularly onerous. But right around then,
TaxCut came out and handled everything, so I switched to that. Wasn't
quite as easy to use, but it came to exactly the same result, and was a LOT cheaper.
Now
TaxCut is just
H&R Block, and while they've decided to make it in several versions, it's still considerably cheaper than
TurboTax versions with equivalent capability . . . and my impression is that they've improved ease of use; the only thing that gave me a
little pause when doing my taxes last year was the AMT treatment.
The past few years,
H&R Block tax software has been packaged with another program,
Deduction Pro, which is supposed to be helpful in valuing your non-cash charitable contributions to places like Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. Unlike the main program itself, I found
Deduction Pro to be so buggy as to be unusable. We'll see if that's still the case this year.
