The necessary inputs for the employment tax statement are made quickly and in between will appear on the right side of the screen repeatedly a preliminary calculation. Some items are explained very carefully and you can little info-links to the online help arrive.
My criticisms are still the same as last year: Unfortunately, not all input options equally good and explained in detail and in some places but I then have to ask me if the entries were really correct. Already at the first entry for employment tax statement I missed the points 34 and 35. This is where you have as an employee of the public service information for VBL make. Up to this point the employment tax statement of the program corresponds exactly to the certificate, obtained by the employer and one can when entering the various sums well geared to the predefined points. Why now just here this deviation? If the public service is so small that you do not have it you should take into account not find all points of the employment tax statement here?
I had hoped that this very case, which has already been criticized for Taxman 2011 has been corrected, but unfortunately that is not going to happen. Overall, the program makes the impression that had been made, but at this point nothing has changed many important updates. Also at the command of the travel expenses has not been changed and you can still enter any decimal places in the mileage.
After I once went through the program and all inputs had made, I was (as was the case last time) amazed at the repayment sum and tried to check all the input path. This return, however, was very cumbersome and confusing. Somehow I got into more and more subfolders that I did not get to see at the first input operation and I almost lost the overview. So took my Steuererlärung this year zeimlich long and I'm not quite sure that we have really entered anything.
What I liked in turn, is the comparison with the previous year. All information will be compared with the values of the previous year and compared. So you have a good overview of Mehreinnahmen-, or -Expenditure and can carry out its own plausibility check.
My conclusion in this year:
Positives: easy installation
- Good explanation function (video assistant)
- The document manager to enter documents
- Updates after online registration
- Partially plausibility check
- Transfer of data from the previous year
- Statistical comparison with last year's figures
Negatives: constant reminder for online registration for fee updates
- Two missing entry points in the employment tax statement
- The thick accompanying manual is unnecessary
- Not all input options are explained
- Only partially plausibility check
- Cluttered with many small subfolders
My conclusion: I think Taxman continue for a solid and well explained in parts software, but which has now lost its clarity and when you should invest some energy but time if you want to familiarize themselves reasonable.
