The Special Sunday Edition: Turbo Tax
I am liking and yet hating Turbo Tax right now.
I love it because I got a crazy federal refund in 4-digits that I wasn’t expecting. I am also getting a refund for VA state taxes. However, I hate Turbo Tax because now I have to print out the forms and white out the $30 telephone excise tax because I don’t have long distance service at home.
It’s a long story, but I don’t have any and my cellphone is paid for by someone else, so I cannot take that credit. SCREW TURBO TAX and the inability to delete line items like this one. For some reason, you can zero out some items, but not this one.
I also really hate the way TT integrates into my Quicken. I must have really effed up my categories when assigning stuff last year, like my medical expenses and tech books. I will say that for some of the home business stuff I have going on, it’s worked out quite well.
I was really afraid of preparing my taxes which is why I procrastinated for so long. I had no idea if I was going to owe or get a refund till this very minute. I took some side income, about which I have not blogged, and that was making some serious impacts.
My single best piece of late advice is to do intermittent saves, more often that TT prompts you to do it. I wasted an hour after closing what I thought was an informational window and not understanding the pop up message about saving.
Note to self: Accrual basis, not cash.
D wrote:
NO WHITE OUT!
Open the Form and click the box. If it doesn’t let you change the number, then right click and select override.
Posted on 15-Apr-07 at 4:39 pm | Permalink
mapgirl wrote:
Trust me. I tried those things. That absolutely will not work with the software. I’ll try it again with the PDF file, but I’d rather just white it out instead of screw around with printing things out again.
Posted on 16-Apr-07 at 8:19 am | Permalink
mapgirl wrote:
nope. Reader won’t let me change it, so white out it is!
Posted on 16-Apr-07 at 8:20 am | Permalink