Taxes done

2006-04-15 09:48 pm
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
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Comparatively painless, once I realized that the Y.D.'s investment income was on one of the 1099's that I'd already processed and put in the wrong place. And I'm getting money back, too.

Call me a Luddite, but I'm filing on paper and getting my refund by mail. I've never gotten electronic filing to work, and I trust direct deposit not at all. And for some reason the big summaries are refusing to print; can't tell if the problem is Linux, Windows 98, or TaxCut. At least the forms are printing OK, so I can file. And I have all the other worksheet-like information in my files. I'll try again, maybe tomorrow, with a direct USB connection to the printer.

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Date: 2006-04-16 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elimloth.livejournal.com
No, it's not linux nor Windows. Instead, it seems to be a spell woven into the forms to make them print incorrectly or to delay their printing until after the filing deadline. You're lucky they printed at all!

Date: 2006-04-16 03:09 pm (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
And here I thought it was just the natural malevolence of the tax system combined with Windows' lumpish stupidity.

Date: 2006-04-16 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elimloth.livejournal.com
I'll not argue about the malevolence of the tax system or whether pay-as-you-go governance is naturally better or worse - having experienced the Santa Cruz pay-per-service model, I can see the downsides of both - I will agree that the lumpish part tends to flow to some pretty bad drivers. Considering well over 70% of crashes/bugs in NT based Windows are 3rd party drivers, notably the video and printer drivers, I can see why you have cause for complaint.

Date: 2006-04-16 02:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lisa-marli.livejournal.com
I use TaxCut and had no problems. I easily skip all the videos. I no longer print everything. Just make sure there are backups... Oh, I do have a direct USB connection to my printers.

And I file electronically. Which is good, because I made an error in a 1099 Employer #, which was caught early.

And we make the deposit to one of our side Credit Union Accounts, that gets cleared out of any $$ so the goverment can't access our real money easily.

Yeah, I'm done finally. Real late this year, do to arrival of Davis Boy #4. All I have left is my Roth IRA deposit, to happen on Monday (real late on that too).

Date: 2006-04-16 03:06 pm (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
I skip the videos, too; that's not the point. I should be able to tell it not to waste my time trying to show them in the first place. It's not so bad the first time through, but if I'm going back to correct something I shouldn't have to click through the entire interview section just to get to the one number I need to change.

Date: 2006-04-16 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashi.livejournal.com
I used the web version, which didn't have any videos, thankfully.

Date: 2006-04-17 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roaringmouse.livejournal.com
I used TurboTax online. They save everything until October... I think I will be buying TurboTax so I don't have a security issue.

Date: 2006-04-18 05:41 am (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
I've been using TaxCut on my local machine since '92 or so; I don't think I'd be willing to trust an online version, even if I could get it to work in Firefox.

Date: 2006-04-18 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asavitzk.livejournal.com
I used TurboTax this year and last year with FireFox. No videos, no activation bs on the pc, high risk of security breaches.

Live on the edge. :)

Date: 2006-04-19 02:18 am (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
Not so much a danger of security breaches as not wanting the parent company to have the information in the first place.

Date: 2006-04-19 02:20 am (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
Last thing I need is spam from a company that may occasionally have need to send me legitimate email -- as they would, if I let them e-file my return.
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