The Taxman cometh and the Taxman taketh away. Even as I write, my printer is busy churning out our tax returns. I started doing our taxes last weekend but gave up in disgust at how complicated it all is.(Taxes are complicated, children are complex). So Saturday, I broke down and decided to download Turbo Tax. Mind you we fill a 1040A, standard deductions, as simple as it can get, but I was so blinded by the unfairness of it all that I just looked for an easy way out. It took from about 8:00 in the morning until 5:00 at night to download the program, so I watched movies and played my new video game. Yesterday I filled in the little boxes and calculated our returns. (Bill deals with taxes every day with his job, so he gets the day off when it comes to our taxes)
Now ordinarily I look for the easiest explaination for things, but there is nothing easy about taxes, remember they are complicated not complex. TAXES have spawned an entire self sustaining industry. Tax lawyers,tax accountants,(no offense to my bro the tax accountant),tax preparation sofware,tax preparation franchises, and a whole other nonprofit business for people who can't afford to pay the tax lawyers. Why does it have to be so complicated? Who writes the tax laws? Could it be the same people who charge you fill out your returns? On the other hand, if ordinary people could pay their taxes without any help, that would put a whole industry our of business and our taxes would go up to pay for the unemployment TAXES.
Well, the returns are printed. So you don't have to read any more ranting. Now I need either to do some mending or bash some boogy men in my video game.
6 comments:
Printed? Like on paper to mail? How last century! I know Nathan does his all on line. That would have saved downloading the software. You would have to ask him, the poli-sci major, the future law writer, the futue tax drafter.
I can't really trust my connection to do an online filing. I lost the connection 5 times just trying to do the forms. Besides, I still have to write the check for it to be real to me. The virtual world is just a little to unreal for my taste. I prefer the taste of the postage stamp.
Well I hope you blasted some boogy men after all the tax stuff. And down loading is a pain at slow speeds
I write so few checks that I leave the checkbook in a drawer at home. Stamps? What are those? :)
cvdvitwNext year try borrowing my disk of Turbotax. It comes now ready for both MAC and PC
Next year try borrowing my disk of Turbotax. It comes now ready for both MAC and PC
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