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Started my taxes today.....
Mar. 9th, 2003 11:50 pmLast night, I installed TurboTax Deluxe. This has been the fifth year in a row that I've used the product. It's worked well for me so far, so why switch to H&R Block's Tax Cut software?
This year, they (Intuit) decided to add a little something to prevent or to seriously curb software piracy. ( Find out what they did, and what my opinions are about this. )
Anyway, back to taxes. I'm pretty good about keeping financial records and tax information. (More about that in a future LJ entry.) The problem is, trying to find the records when I need them. ( Here's the play-by-play, line-item-by-line-item summary. )
Remember that $600 tax rebate us married couples got in 2001? I had to send it all back last year; that's exactly how much I owed. Hopefully I'll get some money back this year. I'd better.
Intuit also came out with a nifty gadget this year: a TurboTax Tax Organizer. It has 8 accordian pockets, sticky labels, and three slash-pouches to hold copies of my tax return, a book on tax tips (included), and a tax schedule and checklist (included). There are even slots for three CD-Rs. Yeah, it's a little on the pricey side ($15), but if I had a few of these and rotate among them every few years, I won't have to panic if I'm audited; eveything's in one place.
This year, they (Intuit) decided to add a little something to prevent or to seriously curb software piracy. ( Find out what they did, and what my opinions are about this. )
Anyway, back to taxes. I'm pretty good about keeping financial records and tax information. (More about that in a future LJ entry.) The problem is, trying to find the records when I need them. ( Here's the play-by-play, line-item-by-line-item summary. )
Remember that $600 tax rebate us married couples got in 2001? I had to send it all back last year; that's exactly how much I owed. Hopefully I'll get some money back this year. I'd better.
Intuit also came out with a nifty gadget this year: a TurboTax Tax Organizer. It has 8 accordian pockets, sticky labels, and three slash-pouches to hold copies of my tax return, a book on tax tips (included), and a tax schedule and checklist (included). There are even slots for three CD-Rs. Yeah, it's a little on the pricey side ($15), but if I had a few of these and rotate among them every few years, I won't have to panic if I'm audited; eveything's in one place.
