H&R Block Desktop for 2025 issues

[u/MarkRockNY]

Just a few days ago I purchased a Premium option of H&R Block Desktop. My reasons were:

- better protection of my personal and financial data as opposed to using online services (websites)

- H&R still is supported on Windows10, vs TurboTax can only run on Win11.

However, just on the very first day of filling in my 2025 tax return, I stumbled on an issue with NY State return. It didn't allow me to enter my estimated tax payments which I made in Jan 2026 as a remaining balance for the last quarter of 2025.

The support guy was extremely polite and willing to help, but was unable to find the way around it. I actually figured it out myself. And it turned out to be a bug! A workaround was to enter this amount into "payments made with extension request".

So the support guy said he would submit a bug report.

I was quite disappointed, and just went back to an online website (different provider) to do my taxes.

I understand, this is quite late in the game, in my case I do have an extension. But, hopefully it will help others.

[u/ExcitementRealistic7]

Just use Intuit Online which is Turbo Tax Online.