The Laffer Utilities

Computer Gaming World called The Laffer Utilities a "well-planned leap backward for office productivity" and described the utilities as "highly entertaining 'time wasters.'" Writing in Compute!, Ralph Roberts described the software as "the first of a new breed of nonproductivity software" and praised it for bringing "chuckles and stress relief" to offices. Game Player's PC Entertainment characterized it as a "shameless set of time-wasters" with emphasis on having fun, while acknowledging it contained "several useful little programs" alongside the humorous utilities.

The Netherlands' Software Gids praised the software's visuals and utility, giving it scores of 8/10 for both and 9/10 for documentation, but criticized the Dutch pricing of ƒ149 as too high, compared to the U.S. prices ($34.95 for DOS and $39.95 for Windows). The reviewer also criticized a Dutch edition labeled as an "international version" for containing only slightly altered English. PC Joker noted the software's limited graphics and lack of sound beyond internal speaker beeping. PC Format gave the software a score of 38% and criticized it as "incredibly irritating to use" with "pretty lame" jokes and excessive disk accessing times, noting it was not suitable for home use but could be used in an office setting.