April 14, 2006
Cheers & Jeers does Tax Tips
from - smijer
From one of my favorite analysts.
Presidential Election Campaign Fund checkoff box: If you check this box, $3 of your taxes will be earmarked for a special fund to pay for presidential campaigns. Notice that the government does not permit you to earmark the money for poor people, or sick people, or national defense. No, the government permits you to earmark money only for the purpose of enabling politicians to produce TV commercials designed to appeal to voters who have the IQ of a Vienna sausage.::
Posted by smijer at April 14, 2006 11:32 AM
Just finished my taxes. I'd expected it to be horrific, having to deal with two different states, but I bit the bullet and bought a three packages from TurboTax; handled everything fine.
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Posted by RSA on April 14, 2006 12:15 PM Link to comment |
Yeah - turbotax has always worked pretty well for me, though I have taken the easy way out a time or two, and handed it to someone using an eerily turbo-tax-like program at H&R Block, which I had to, in turn, instruct them to use.
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Posted by smijer on April 14, 2006 01:52 PM Link to comment |
Good one. I guess you just can't win. . .
The one trouble I had with TT was downloading updates. It crashed the application immediately on opening, whatever I tried. Eventually I had to find the updates on the TT web site and load them by hand. That worked, fortunately.
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Posted by RSA on April 14, 2006 02:43 PM Link to comment |
I used H&R's online site. It was not too bad. Even had my state done for free. We had extra $$ taken out so there were no surprises like last year (and the year before that).
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Posted by Henry on April 15, 2006 12:53 PM Link to comment |
