Did my taxes today. I've been using TurboTax for the past few years but decided to look for something different when I realized that they've raised their rates. A bit of Googling found me a very informative blog entry that compared the various tax prep companies and lead me to TaxSlayer.com.
Silly name aside, it did get quite a few good reviews, and was the cheapest at $9.95 to e-file both federal and state returns. As a sanity check, I entered my numbers into both TurboTax and TaxSlayer, and TaxSlayer actually gave me a bigger refund (some 15% more).
I have to say though, this does come at a cost -- their UI is definitely not the most user friendly. There really isn't much in the way of help, and they don't provide any overview pages to see all the numbers you've entered. You just have to trust that they're doing the right thing until the end, when they present you with the completed forms.
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