I want to see if any community members have success with getting Turbo Tax Standard (Desktop version for Canada) install successfully on a Windows 10 or 11 virtual machine running on M1 Mac?
Most of my work is done on a Mac and the only software I run is Turbo Tax once every year. So I would like to avoid getting a second Windows laptop just for filing tax. I would prefer not to go TurboTax online. Hopefully can hear back from anyone who are successful or who has not been successful in getting it to work.
Thanks.
We don’t have a downloadable version available for Mac OS. For people who don’t have a Windows computer, we have TurboTax Online, which will work on almost anything that has a modern browser. We also have an app for iOS in Apple’s app store. However, the code for TurboTax CD/Download will not work with these products.
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possible workaround for installing tt in MAC
install windows virtual machine on mac
install windows os in the virtual machine
install TT on windows inside the VM inside mac
did it successfully
I have been able to install Turbo Tax Desktop on Windows running on VM on Mac running on Intel processor. Just not sure with the new Macs using ARM processor if it can still be installed successfully as I will be installing Windows 11 Pro for ARM.
@eyekor - are you using Windows 11 Pro for ARM and is successfully with the installing and using the software with no issues? Thanks.
Please check the turbotax system requirement at
https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax/software/install
It has dependency on OS and processor speed not on processor type.
Note: TurboTax may be installed on three computers and must be activated via Internet.
You can try installing it as they have unconditional return guarantee.
I don't know if you tried it last year, but (and for others reading), TurboTax for Windows works on an M1 Mac running Parallels with a Windows 11 for ARM VM. It's slow, but it works.
I wish Intuit had a downloadable offering for Mac users. With so many companies selling our data and so many breaches happening to companies that "take our data security seriously" and "use the highest standards to protect our data", storing our financial data online is NOT an option.
Thank you for your feedback, this is one item that has been brought forward to our engineers. We will send your feedback also.
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Thanks for the update @Jeremy Last . I also find it slow but wondering if I upgrade the memory to 16GB whether it will improve the performance.
By the way, what is the hardware specs of your Mac? Just want to know for comparison and see if it will worthwhile upgrading the hardware.
Obviously the preferable route is for Intuit to have a MAC version for the Desktop product. However I am not sure how likely it will be happen because they will look at MAC users being a smaller user base. But again for the US version, they have a MAC downloadable product.
@TurboTaxBrenda - if you can also bring forth the feedback to the Product team that will be great.
My Mac is a M1Max with 64GB for RAM.
I think the slowness is Windows 11 for ARM having to run TurboTax which was built for Intel CPUs.
Microsoft’s Intel emulator just isn’t as fast as Apple’s. I haven’t tried it this year yet though, it may have improved.
I prefer the download also (not technical enough to do the workaround) and am sad to see the online iOS/ Mac apps charge double to remit the same two tax returns ($40 each online, but $40 for both if I use the standard version)
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