Taxes. Must do taxes.
Apr. 5th, 2008 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkThat's not the hard part. The hard part is going through the huge pile of old statements and junk mail and Explanation of Benefits forms and catalogs and solicitations to join AARP and all the other stuff in that pile to find the rather small number of tax documents I need.
One benefit of procrastination - this year's tax software is now on sale. If anybody else is in the same boat - check out Tax Cut at Office Max. The Fed+State bundle (without e-filing) is marked down from $49 to $35. Not only that, instead of a CD, the software comes on a reusable 1G memory stick! How cool is that? One word of warning - my local Office Max (Lake and Blaisdell) not only doesn't have price tags on the shelves where Tax Cut resides, they don't seem to have the sale price in their computer and will charge you $49 unless you flash the ad at them. I don't know if this is on purpose or just general incompetence, but if you want the deal, be aware.
It's absolutely gorgeous outside. Richard and I got out our bikes and trundled around two lakes before he went off the the Minnstf meeting and I dived into the piles of papers. There's still a thick sheet of ice on both lakes, although it is just starting to melt at the edges on the sunnier parts of the shoreline. Well, time to go see if Tax Cut finished installing and updating.
One benefit of procrastination - this year's tax software is now on sale. If anybody else is in the same boat - check out Tax Cut at Office Max. The Fed+State bundle (without e-filing) is marked down from $49 to $35. Not only that, instead of a CD, the software comes on a reusable 1G memory stick! How cool is that? One word of warning - my local Office Max (Lake and Blaisdell) not only doesn't have price tags on the shelves where Tax Cut resides, they don't seem to have the sale price in their computer and will charge you $49 unless you flash the ad at them. I don't know if this is on purpose or just general incompetence, but if you want the deal, be aware.
It's absolutely gorgeous outside. Richard and I got out our bikes and trundled around two lakes before he went off the the Minnstf meeting and I dived into the piles of papers. There's still a thick sheet of ice on both lakes, although it is just starting to melt at the edges on the sunnier parts of the shoreline. Well, time to go see if Tax Cut finished installing and updating.
tax shortcut
Date: 2008-04-06 03:55 pm (UTC)my mail coming in December and January, and throwing anything
that "might" be tax related in a folder. Then it was all ready
to go at tax time.
So you haven't given into the cult of AARP yet either?
To me it is like admitting defeat, or old age, or something :)
Sue G.
Re: tax shortcut
Date: 2008-04-06 04:05 pm (UTC)Actually, the hard part is finding evidence of stocks that were sold earlier in the year, which may or may not show up in some clear format on the papers that arrive in December. I'm wading through a huge backlog of old statements now, and was surprised to discover that I had sold one (or possibly two) batches of QLogic ESPP stock. First I was surprised to discover I had ANY sales. Then I remembered changing to the quicksale plan in August and was surprised that it only worked for the next stock purchase and then went back to the Hoarding Forever plan.
And I am absolutely, totally BAFFLED by the RSU plan.