Can someone in Intuit/QuickBooks please clarify. During a telephone conversation I was informed that Intuit were working on supplying a one off payment read only licence to allow us to keep data access to desktop. The last I heard/saw was that it was to be an extraction file. THAT IS NOT the same thing!! I had a client last week ask me for a report of all of his expenditure on a rental property that HMRC required for Capital Gains TAx computations. The report went back to 1999!! This is the sort of thing that crops up Intuit. Not a couple of years worth of corrupted reports - I am again  harking at the ceased desktop payroll data extraction called UKdatadump - but ACTUAL DATA. 

I can't understand Intuit ditching desktop in favour of inferior software as I have repeated several times before, I can understand even, less the lack of wanting to keep your customers on board at all.