TECHNOLOGY - Feb. 15, 1996

Intuit Again Warns of Errors in Tax Program: For the second year in a row, Intuit Inc. is warning customers that errors in its popular tax-preparation software could lead to miscalculations. The Menlo Park, Calif., company said that fewer than 1% of users of TurboTax and MacInTax should be affected by the bugs, which have led to wrong entries in some cases involving depreciation of cars and real estate, self-employed taxpayers and individual retirement account contributions. The company is offering users help in working around the flaws, and even free corrected versions of the programs, company executive David Goines said. The flaws--seven in all--showed up over the last two months during testing that continued after shipment of the software.