TurboTax is good. I know many people that swear by it.
I use H&R Block's TaxCut. It does what it's supposed to do and I figure that H&R Block knows a thing or two about doing taxes.
I couldn't imagine doing my taxes by hand. If you can do that, more power to you. Your talents far exceed mine. TaxCut (and certainly TurboTax too) makes it easy because it walks you through your financial situation and figures out where you can get deductions and credits. And it finds things that I don't even know how you'd otherwise know about. Not without pouring over hundreds of pages of exciting IRS documents.
For instance, did you know that if you bought a brand new car after February 16, 2009 and have an income of less than 125k (MFJ: 250k), you can get a federal credit back on a percentage of state sales tax that you paid? I didn't. TaxCut did. Added several hundred bucks to my refund that I otherwise wouldn't have known about. That alone was well-worth the $29.
