{"id":27957,"date":"2019-01-27T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2019-11-08T06:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:01:29","slug":"tax-season-and-financial-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=27957","title":{"rendered":"Tax season and Financial software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. The annual nightmare known as \u201cTax Season\u201d has once again come around, like a bad case of dysentery, and now we must begin the annual game of figuring out how to keep our hard earned money in our own pockets.<\/p>\n

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For the last 15+ years, I\u2019ve been using Turbotax, made by Intuit. This has been due to the complexity of my personal investments and figuring out things like Capital Gains and loses. I\u2019ve also been using Intuit\u2019s Quicken for far, far longer.<\/p>\n

While I have to upgrade Turbotax each year, I\u2019ve generally only updated Quicken every 3 or more years. However, the corporate greed-heads running Intuit have decided now would be the perfect time to abuse their monopoly. They are forcing everyone who currently uses Quicken into a subscription model whether they want to or not.<\/p>\n

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I saw this last year and decided not to do an upgrade until I had no choice. Well, the \u201cNo Choice\u201d point has been reached. I was notified that Intuit would break the version I\u2019m currently using so I won\u2019t be able to pull in my financial data from my banks and investment services.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, I pulled the pin and when I ordered this year\u2019s copy of Turbotax, I also ordered the upgrade to Quicken. I expect to have them both in hand in the next few days. (I prefer ordering the Media rather then just a download. They can\u2019t take that away from me)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll probably install both products next weekend, AFTER backing up my current data files. Then it will be the usual conversions and connection processes I\u2019ll have to wade through. It\u2019s sad that I, and millions of others, are being forced to upgrade at the point of a virtual gun. There are no other decent competing productions.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m continually looking at the Open Source application called GnuCash<\/a>, but the tools used to connect to your financial institutions still are a royal pain to configure, and they don\u2019t always work. I\u2019m hoping that someone will finally write a module that will allow a simple connection set up and then automatically build the account inside GnuCash. Once they do that, Quicken will be facing a real threat to their monopoly.<\/p>\n

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~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n