Deposits and tax prep
I made a bunch of deposits this week so I moved the Save-O-Meter to 34%. Progress, but slowly.
I think I got all my tax notices this year so I will be starting my preparations soon. Mostly I’m waiting for my tax forms to arrive so that I can plan if I am getting a refund or owe money. I am pretty sure I’m getting a Federal refund, but the VA one got all complicated last year. First I owed them money. Then I owed them some more money, then I got a mysterious letter that says I actually get a refund. I *knew* this state was wonky. They’re out to get Yankees like me.
I like to do all of my taxes by paper & spreadsheet. It’s all that accounting work I did when I was young. Last year I filed online through Quicken. I’m not sure I want to do that this year since there were things that I didn’t like about the way Quicken classifies certain tax impacting items. So, I’ll have to work the numbers on paper anyway. There is something about the ritual of buying registered mail receipts, etc. that make tax season kind of fun for me.
I hope folks are getting things ready too!
Caitlin wrote:
I’ve been using quicken since 1998 faithfully and probably tax software since about then too and I’ve NEVER used quicken to “jump start” my taxes because I think it’s horrible at that. Even plugging in your own numbers the software (now several are free for windows users) or using one of the online proggies that are free until you e-file or print can help you double check your paper numbers
Posted on 24-Jan-06 at 9:24 pm | Permalink