@MajorHavoc : Yes, definitely awful experience. I will attempt to get the interest and penalties covered, and likely report the results, but first I need to recreate the issue and that will have to wait until I get all my current taxes/issues sorted.
As to where I'm going after TurboTax, I found a CPA who's not only a tax preparer but a tax advisor and I think I can trust to handle my returns - they include real estate, oil and gas, stocks, options, and even "straddles". I've had things in the past that if I hadn't known about TurboTax wouldn't have told me and that would have cost me a lot because I would have missed deductions, etc. (The NIIT was something I didn't know about that cost me, but there was nothing could be done about that one. ) With all the complication, who knows how much I've missed that I didn't know. (Though I bet I still know things a lot of tax preparers don't) Plus spending entire weekends just doing taxes? It's past time for me to finds someone else to handle my tax headaches, not just because TT screwed me this time.
To leave this on a positive note, I have really liked that TurboTax provided the ability for electronic document transfer, e.g. automatically download W2s, 1099s from brokerages, etc. Years ago I had left TT and went to TaxAct, but came back and stayed with TT because of that transfer ability.
