TurboTax 2024 and Monterey 12.7.6 OS

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TurboTax 2024 and Monterey 12.7.6 OS

I have a MacPro early 2015 and it will only update to Monterey 12.7.6.

TurboTax wrote me: "We’ll be updating our macOS system requirements for TurboTax Desktop products

for tax year 2024. For 2024 tax returns prepared with TurboTax Desktop

for Mac, macOS Ventura 13 or later will be required. At TurboTax, the security of our customers’ data is a top priority. Apple has announced they will no longer provide security updates or support for macOS Monterey 12 as of November 2024. As a result, our latest TurboTax Desktop products for Mac won't support macOS Monterey 12."

Is there anything that can be done or do I need to buy a new laptop to get Ventura 13 or later OS?

Thank you in advance for your time and attention to my inquiry.

Posted on Oct 23, 2024 4:34 PM

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Answer 1

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Niel

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Oct 23, 2024 4:42 PM in response to slssf

Use the online version of TurboTax in your web browser.

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Answer 2

Nov 9, 2024 5:03 AM in response to slssf

IRS direct File will be back in 2025 as well.

Previously, it was for simpler returns and only in certain states.

https://directfile.irs.gov/

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steve626

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Oct 23, 2024 9:33 PM in response to slssf

You have two choices if you need to use the desktop version of TurboTax:

(1) Get a newer Mac that can run the required MacOS version

(2) Use software other than TurboTax

OWC (and Apple) sell refurbished and used Macs that come with warranties and many are relatively new and run the newer or latest MacOS. But I would get a new Mac because they aren't that much more costly and I am suspicious of used Macs being resold, someone got rid of it for a reason. Also, if you get a used Mac you will be facing this same problem again sooner than with a new Mac.

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Answer 4

Nov 9, 2024 4:53 AM in response to slssf

Oh, well. So much for Intuit.

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muguy

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Oct 23, 2024 4:38 PM in response to slssf

If you’re asking if you can run macOS 13 or later, you cannot.

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Answer 6

Dec 17, 2024 3:40 PM in response to slssf

IntuitApple does this on a regular basis. The last two MBPs I bought were because my old one couldn’t be upgraded to an OS that TurboTax for the year couldn’t be run on. One year, I simply used a friend’s newer Mac. But it is worth it so I don’t have to enter the previous year’s information into some new tax program manually.

The real scandal here isn’t about their upgrade issue, it’s the fact that Intuit have lobbied the government to keep the IRS from making its own tax prep software and manipulate the complaints by making a handicapped free version available. There’s a good article about this history of TurboTax in ProPublica that you can Google.

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Answer 7

Dec 18, 2024 9:14 AM in response to Niel

Good advice. I considered this one year but I am concerned about the ability to look up all the past returns, also the regular version of it allows you to do a few alternate versions of returns to do “what if?” Scenarios. I’m a little paranoid too about the security of having that information online forever.

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tbirdvet

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Dec 18, 2024 4:50 PM in response to slssf

I was informed by TT that will only support the last 3 OS now and in the future. Which means for now Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia.

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slssf Author

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Dec 17, 2024 11:56 AM in response to Gar@506H

I had already purchased TurboTax so am not considering a change in software. Perhaps post a new Community Question to get opinions from people familiar with transition from TurboTax to H&R Block? Good luck...

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Gar@506H

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Dec 14, 2024 7:38 AM in response to steve626

What is you opinion of H&R Block Tax program, I'm in the same boat. I was wondering if it would transfer my 2023 information over into it?

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