Tax 2004: If you are confused, buy a software!

If you have not started yet and now wondering how you'll squeeze time to
file before the April 15th deadline, we believe it is better to choose the
software-option.

"Turbo Tax" is a good solution. Step by Step you'll be asked all questions
and you just put all your ionformation. In these last few days you may
manage to get a good discount in one of your local stores. For example,
you may get Deluxe version of "Turbo Tax" for as low as $19.95 (regular
price $39.95) if you know where to look for bargains.

H&R Block's "Tax Cut" is another option and in "Staples" store, we found
its standard version was getting sold essentially free after mail-in rebate.

Both of these offer a free (after mail-in rebate) state tax software with it.
A cheaper way is to go online and feed your data instead of buying the
CD. Both H&R Block and Turbo Tax provide this service.

If you donot have much complications and your income is low, we
recommend using the free software options from "Turbo Tax",
"H&R Block", "Complete Tax", "TaxAct" etc. etc. You need to go
to these sites through www.irs.gov. Also, these are free only for Federal
Tax. you need to pay for state tax though. One annoying part is their
frequent prop-ups requesting you to upgrade to their paid version.