MacInTax for Windows, Taxview                 business/taxes
File Tax Returns Electronically with MacIntax
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
By using the 1989 edition of MacInTax or MacInTax for Windows,
you can file your taxes electronically and receive a refund in
as little as three days, Softview reports. Softview joined
forces with a nationwide electronic filing service company
called InstaTax (San Diego) and SPEED>S (Minneapolis), a
worldwide electronic networking service, to provide for
electronic filing.
 
If you want to receive a refund within three days, you pay a
$39.95 filing fee (plus about $30 for a refund anticipation
loan). To receive a refund in the normal amount of time, you
pay $29.95 to file electronically. The filing service, called
InstaRefund, will be available starting January 15, 1990,
Softview reports.
 
MacInTax for Windows and MacInTax can display a 1040 tax form,
and more than 75 other federal tax forms, schedules, worksheets,
and statements, plus eight state tax supplements, on screen. You
can then print an exact replica of the form, complete with data,
on screen or paper using a dot-matrix or laser printer, Softview
says.
 
MacInTax requires a Mac 512KE or higher. For the Windows version,
you'll need an IBM PC AT with 640K bytes of RAM. A version for
professionals, called Taxview, is also available in Windows and
Mac versions. It consists of a series of individual modules:
1040; 1065 (partnerships); 1120 (corporations); 1120-S
(S-Corporations); plus state supplements, electronic filing,
and a multi-year tax modeling program.
 
Price: $99. Taxview: Electronic Filing, $149; Planner, $295;
1040, $495; 1065, 1120, 1120-S, $395; state supplements, $79
each.
 
Contact: Softview, Inc., 4820 Adohr Lane, Suite F, Camarillo,
CA 93010, (805) 388-2626.
 
                              --- David L. Andrews
 
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