do my own taxes

Well I ended up filling in the online form and everything, I’m just sure that I missed some stuff, like the bus passes for one, so I’m going to get them done like I usually do and make sure that they’re done correctly.

The Universe is now conspiring to encourage me to do my own taxes. I find this article on my Google Reader:

http://poorerthanyou.com/2009/01/23/college-money-tip-6-do-your-own-taxes/

I generally have them done for me for 5$. It’s cheap, it just takes them a while to do them, and they only do paper copies.

I like budgetting, finances and number so much, I should be able to do them myself this year. At least that’s the goal.

Was looking at This page and it seems to be a simple enough thing. I’m going to give it a shot. Worse comes to worse, I can always pay the 5$ and get them done by someone.

Anythings better than having the last guy that did my taxes.

I think, if you have the cash to spare, it’s easier just to hire someone to do it for you. Not recommended!

That means the full 1040, and schedules A, B, C, and form SE!

It took me 3 hours…but I have bragging rights!

This is only my second year of actually having to file taxes. Last year I went to H&R Block and after that I decided to never let someone else do my taxes again. Why pay someone else to do something you could just as easily complete yourself (and for free)? This year I used TaxACT. Their site was easy to navigate and I finished my Federal and State in a matter of minutes. I did my boyfriends taxes too, and he got his refund direct deposited into his account days later (very fast!). I don’t know why everyone can’t just do their taxes themselves.

Yeah, I did my own taxes, and in fact have done them myself most of my life (I mean the time that I’ve had to do taxes), but I’ve always had to do the EZ form. This is the easiest form, and anyone can do their taxes on this form if they don’t have any odd charges or the like.

Last year I had to have my taxes done by a professional as I had sold stock and that makes things a little weird, at least the way my company does it.

Stupid dial-up!!

I’m hoping to have this done (or at least started) tonight—right after I exercise and make some tea. It can’t be that difficult, right?