How to do TurboTax Business using a Mac

[Al Pitre]

2024 TurboTax Business using an Apple computer

[M-MTax]

You have to run the program in a Windows environment.

[VolvoGirl]

Sorry but Turbo Tax Business  is not available to do online or on a Mac.  You can probably run the Windows Business program on a Mac using a Windows Emulator like Parallels. But you would have to buy a copy of Windows to install in it.   Google Windows on Mac to get articles on the various  options.

[Beachtiger1]

WE NEED TURBO TAX BUSINESS SOFTWARE FOR MAC COMPUTERS.  Apparently there is a need for it.  Why can't Intuit create this for TT Business when it is formatted for the Mac computers on all the other Turbo Tax versions.??  IT MAKES NO SENSE.  Most Businesses use Mac computers these days.  I have been asking for this for years.

[Al Pitre]

Thanks.  It will be cheaper to use a tax service than to purchase the software and a new Windows computer.

[Al Pitre]

Thanks.  Cheaper just to go to another tax service than to have to purchase a windows computer. 

[Al Pitre]

Totally agree. Don't understand.  Cheaper to just go to a tax service than to purchase a windows computer. 

[tjwolf]

You and everybody else.  I remember first asking "why no Mac version" for at least 15 years - and nothing ever gets done.  I suspect that unlike the regular TT versions, the Business version doesn't have enough customers to make a Mac version profitable enough.  I've been making do with running the Windows version inside a Parallels virtual machine and that's served me well for years.  But I'm starting to be in a bind since Apple moved to an ARM based architecture, so it can't run an x86 based Windows operating system anymore.  There is a Windows-for-ARM operating system that can supposedly run x86 apps in emulation mode, but I haven't dared to try it.  Instead, I've been keeping an x86 Mac around - just to run TT Business once every year :(

[M-MTax]

I wonder how much longer anyone will have to endure this situation anyway. 

Intuit's ProConnect is already 100% cloud-based (online) with nothing to install for professional tax preparers.

Their other two pro products have cloud-based, secure hosting options that offer 99.9% uptime and nightly backups of data. I suspect it won't be too long before Inuit moves to an entirely cloud-based solution for TurboTax Business.