Last I heard, TurboTax does *not* natively support Apple Silicon Macs, the *only* kind they now sell. No, I don't want to download Rosetta. I remember seeing a System Requirements page that listed Intel Mac as a requirement, but don't see that here: https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/tta-system-requirements. Does anyone know if they've addressed the issue for new Macs?
The current year program (2022) runs just fine on my M1 iMac.
I don't want to install Rosetta, which was required for TT 2022. Maybe they came out with an update addressing that. A sure-fire way to see if they support the Apple Silicon architecture is to find the Turbotax app and executable, and in a Terminal window run the 'file' utility on it, looking to see if it supports the 'arm64' architecture. For instance, this command demonstrates that Quicken supports both 'arm64' and 'x86_64' (Intel 64 bit chips):
> file /Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64]
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/Quicken.app/Contents/MacOS/Quicken (for architecturearm64
:( Mach-O 64-bit executablearm64
I'm thinking if the Quicken folks can figure it out the TurboTax developers should be able to do it, but the System Requirements statement isn't explicit about that.
Have you seen the 2023 Mac System Requirements
I have seen their statement, but it's not explicit about native Apple Silicon support. I bought the earlier version based upon their incomplete specification and didn't use it, and couldn't return it.
Not going to buy TT 2024 unless/until I hear that they've addressed this issue. This page suggests there is no change: https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/product-system-requirements/minimum-system-requirements-turbotax-mac-software/L5ar0Busw_US_en_US
bought and downloaded it... wants to install Rosetta... still. When is this going to be changed? Of course now I can't use it unless I want to install Rosetta... which I do not. And I cannot return it... This is not right.
It depends. If you do not wish to install Rosetta you may wish to use a different device or method.