TurboTax
TurboTax is Intuit's widely used personal and small-business tax preparation software for macOS. It guides users through federal and state tax returns, handles deductions, credits, investments, self-employment income, and complex scenarios, and offers e-filing, audit support, and integration with tax documents. TurboTax comes in multiple tiers (Basic, Deluxe, Premier, Self-Employed) and serves millions of individual taxpayers and small business owners annually.
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1 suggestionAs of today (May 2026), TurboTax 2024 for macOS is still compiled as Intel-only and runs on Apple Silicon Macs only under Rosetta 2 emulation, resulting in noticeably sluggish performance. However, Intuit has publicly confirmed they are actively working on a native Apple Silicon (Universal Binary) version for tax year 2026, with backwards compatibility for 2025 also under development. Do not install Rosetta to work around this if you can wait. Check Intuit's official support pages or your TurboTax account regularly for updates on the native build's availability — given the September 2028 deadline for Rosetta 2 removal in macOS 28, Intuit is likely to release the native version well before then, especially given sustained customer pressure. If you must file taxes before the native version ships, running the Intel build under Rosetta 2 will work today, but plan to migrate to the native build as soon as it becomes available.
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