While using tax software such as Block's TaxCut or TurboTax from Intuit (nasdaq: INTU - news - people ) certainly can help with the calculations, you still have to input all the information correctly--and to do that it helps to have at least some understanding of the law.

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TurboTax's Miller says the company offers a free form on its Web site for filers with those simple returns.

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That's why the newest version of TurboTax groups users into seven industries: real estate, online selling (think eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) sellers), construction, freelance artists, professional services (programmers, computer consultants), child-care providers and a generic catch-all bucket.

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Last year's headaches don't seem to have hurt sales of TurboTax.

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She's running into opposition from a powerful group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include TurboTax publisher Intuit and E-File Tax Returns.

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She's running into opposition from a powerful group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include TurboTax publisher Intuit (nasdaq: INTU - news - people ) and E-File Tax Returns.

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