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Video: How TurboTax Helps You Handle Major Life Changes

Updated for Tax Year: 2012
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TurboTax has helped millions of people handle major life changes that can have a big impact on their taxes.

A major change in your life such as a new baby, or a new home can have a big impact on your taxes. TurboTax has helped millions of people handle major life events just like these. Here’s how we can help you.

Just tell us what happened over the past year. Our checklist makes it easy. Then TurboTax will take it from there.

We’ll ask questions based on what you told us, to make sure we help you find every credit and deduction you deserve.

Let’s say you bought a house... we’ll guide you step-by-step and ask you everything we need to know to get you the big home ownership deductions and credits you've got coming.

Turbo Tax will run through over 350 possible deductions, asking simple questions to find the ones that apply to you.…and show you where to easily enter the information. TurboTax shows you which deductions we have found on your behalf and looks for those that you may not know about.

No matter how big the change in your life, we make it easy to make sure you don't miss a thing, so you'll get your maximum refund, guaranteed.

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