Outside of the first 8 years together, I have been responsible for our taxes....and not once in the last 10 years of doing them, have I not waited till the absolute last minute, to finish them and file them...APRIL 15th, and sometimes APRIL 16the if Patriot's Day falls on the 15th.
When my husband had taken on a job, where his home base, his operation was out of our home....(considered a small business) it became real complicated and he did not have the time to do them so turbo tax for business, it was!
And I learned a thing or two!
Now that we bought our home up here outright, the hubby is working less than 35 hours a week at a menial job for the health insurance coverage and to pay property taxes and the heating and food bill, and I am not working out of the home at all....we really can only file the short form with no deductions other than the standard deductions.
Yet, some how, STUPID Turbo tax and Taxact, even when I upgraded to their most expensive programs, could not do my taxes correctly, due to a flaw in their programs that did not have a certain form that i needed, and mentioned on line 46 or 50? of the 1040 as well.
This pissed me off....BIG TIME....because i wanted to file electronically so i could get our money back...and because turbotax and tax act did not have the provision for this form that i needed for an inheritance of an Ira that we got in 2008 from matt's dead mom, the programs could not figure my State taxes due correctly either.
I even went in to the IRS to see if they could help me, and they too were UNAWARE of this particular form and the tax advantages of using it...i found it on the irs's site, when researching beneficiaries of IRA's....but the irs office was just cluless and insisted I file my taxes without using it, which would have cost me nearly a thousand bucks more in taxes between State and Federal with penalties of cashing it out!!!
Anyway, this boiled down to me having to do them manually....by pencil, step by step, line by line, attachment and form by form, and this was without even having to use schedule A for writeoffs! What a headache!
Only to read the damn manual direction for mailing them, where it stated that photocopies were not good, and pencil was not allowed so i had to rewrite them in ink!
There has to be a better way.....is all that I have left to say on this!
Care
When my husband had taken on a job, where his home base, his operation was out of our home....(considered a small business) it became real complicated and he did not have the time to do them so turbo tax for business, it was!
And I learned a thing or two!Now that we bought our home up here outright, the hubby is working less than 35 hours a week at a menial job for the health insurance coverage and to pay property taxes and the heating and food bill
, and I am not working out of the home at all....we really can only file the short form with no deductions other than the standard deductions.Yet, some how, STUPID Turbo tax and Taxact, even when I upgraded to their most expensive programs, could not do my taxes correctly, due to a flaw in their programs that did not have a certain form that i needed, and mentioned on line 46 or 50? of the 1040 as well.
This pissed me off....BIG TIME....because i wanted to file electronically so i could get our money back...and because turbotax and tax act did not have the provision for this form that i needed for an inheritance of an Ira that we got in 2008 from matt's dead mom, the programs could not figure my State taxes due correctly either.
I even went in to the IRS to see if they could help me, and they too were UNAWARE of this particular form and the tax advantages of using it...i found it on the irs's site, when researching beneficiaries of IRA's....but the irs office was just cluless and insisted I file my taxes without using it, which would have cost me nearly a thousand bucks more in taxes between State and Federal with penalties of cashing it out!!!
Anyway, this boiled down to me having to do them manually....by pencil, step by step, line by line, attachment and form by form, and this was without even having to use schedule A for writeoffs! What a headache!
Only to read the damn manual direction for mailing them, where it stated that photocopies were not good, and pencil was not allowed so i had to rewrite them in ink!
There has to be a better way.....is all that I have left to say on this!
Care
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