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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas 
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Yep, that's right. Our copies for federal and state taxes got done last night, and this afternoon, after my SO's 2003 return turned up, I e-filed with Turbotax's online free e-filing. And, naturally, their computations matched the ones I did last night. *chuckle* Not bad for the first day of February. Now we just have to wait for direct deposit to increase our checking accounts. |
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Alicia Member
since 2002-03-22
Posts 279 |
but wait ali,...you make it sound like so much fun. or atleast nothing like the dreadful task that it is. feb. 1? - you. are. good. |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Heh. Don't I know it...ooo..mirror..um. Yeah. My dad does this stuff for a living, being CPA and IRS certified and running his own tax prep business since 79. And, one of those blowoff classes in High School did some good: MOCE, or Mathematics of Consumer Economics, which covered smart shopping, figuring sales tax, counting back change, and preparing tax returns. I took another blow-off course like that in college, which dealt with mortgages, sinking-fund annuities, stocks, interest rates, savings accounts, and sundry real-life applications with formulas drawn from arithmetic through calculus and trigonometry. And yeah, I love doing this stuff, just like I love cracking open computer cases and fiddling with the innards and building custom systems. Only downside is that it's a rather expensive hobby. As for tax returns, I've always filed at the earliest possible opportunity. Funnest year was 2000. Federal return, and 3 state returns since that was a rather adventurous year, living and working in 3 states which happened to have state income tax. |
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Savage Quiescence Member
since 2002-07-29
Posts 326Wandering |
I wish one of those blowoff classes was offered at my high school. The closest thing we have is an accounting course which teaches you how to balance a checkbook. Something like that might actually be useful.. unlike my calculus class.. *snickers* So says the English teacher, Alicia |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
i paid someone to do mine. i also appreciated my little deduction this year.  egowhores.com - really love yourself. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
How IS that deduction growing, Christopher? It seems we have the taxes done by mid-February [the last W-9 arriving just yesterday as it was mailed on the 31st] but some folks believe in waiting until the last minute [or a couple of days before] to mail in their returns. We usually "owe" a small bit and heaven forbid we get it in early. Of course its in the news and papers from now until 4/14 at 11:59:59 p.m. so how can one "forget"? |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
A bunch of masochists you all are... I've been taking the EZ way out for a couple of years. This time it's full "itemized deductions" year after buying a new property. Gotta love those huge mortgage/interest deductions the whacked-out real estate industry is now giving us...  |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
I was surprised at the inclusion of sales tax deductions. I thought that was done away with back in the early 80's. How I remember those times, massive manila envelopes stuffed to overflow with little paper receipts, culled for their precious sales tax. |
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Capricious Member
since 2002-09-14
Posts 89California, USA |
I'm a deduction this year. For the first time since I was a kid. (which was ... um, a while ago) Who'd have thought a tax return could be linked to your self esteem...? |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Heh...very true. For our 2003 returns, had I known of it, or even though about it, I would've had my SO claim me as a non-related dependant member of the family, seeing how I was fairly messed up for 18 months, and all of 2003, from a nasty wrist injury. |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
And the refunds are here! "Oh joyous day, caloo-callay!" he chortled in his joy.' -- Lewis Carroll's 'The Jaberwocky'. |
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