The differences between CD and download are:
1. You are now buying directly from Intuit with your CC instead of from a third party; therefore, they get all your updated personal transaction data from the purchase.
2. (Speculation) Going forward, Inuit can force low-level user compliance, such as updating your registration, before allowing the download.
Before now, you had the option:
1. Not to register with Intuit.
2. To file taxes on paper via US mail without using your CC to pay for electronic filing of federal return. Now, they get your CC at purchase anyway.
I’m switching to H&R Block. The whole point of TT was to self-prepare tax reporting independently and privately. Now, there’s little difference between TT and H&R Block.
