We used to do that game. Only it was musical theatre titles and the word "beaver."

Hello, Beaver.
Into the Beaver
A Chorus Beaver
A Little Night Beaver
Beaver Miserables
The Beaver Man
and the ever-ubiquitous:
Beaver!

BTW, DP, remind me to give you information about our accountant for next year. She is specifically an entertainment-industry accountant, and she works miracles because so much is deductible for us all.

I'm dealing with taxes right now. It is, by most standards, simple for us but here's a truth about me:

I would pay double in taxes to just fill out one two-sided form. I don't want to deal with charity deductions. Dealing with mortgage interest deductions is an argument AGAINST buying a house as far as I'm concerned. Consulting income is not really welcome because it adds forms.

The federal government should give us a little certificate for being lazy enough that our income ends up being taxed at exactly the statutory rate. Our 401k's are about the only dodge we have and that is because it creates no extra paperwork.

Well, this year my string of doing just the basic 1040 by hand came to an end. Some unexpected income created some unexpected hassles.

I'm annoyed.

We have filed our taxes and long ago put away and spent the refund.

Not to brag or anything* :D





* For those who say that having a refund at the end is like giving the government an interest free loan, I say that I would rather do that than have to pay a tax bill in April. Besides, with interest rates at around 1% or less, I ain't losing much. Besides, I would probably just spend it anyways.

We just paid ours.....ouch!

We can't seem to find last years so we can't file this years! How he managed to lose them I don't know. I can find every year BUT last year, argh!!

Hey T,

Might want to give Turbo Tax a shot first. My parents have fairly complicated taxes and it works well still.

Then again, in my experience, H&R Block is not the best place to go and full of people who can take a test, but don't have enough knowledge to truly think outside the box in anyone's benefit.

I agree with the Turbo Tax recommendation, even if you get someone else to do it, follow along with Turbo Tax. Eventually you may feel confident enough to do it on your own.

Alex: pay extra to an accountant instead of the government - and let them deal with the mortgage interest deductions. Those amount to HUGE tax savings! (In the thousands for us)

*sigh*

:(

I'm paying mine - a mere $1,200 - on Tuesday. I have the money at least, but I'm holding off on sending it partly because I'm hoping it takes about 5 days for them to cash the check, and partly because I don't gotta. Or something like that.

Double ugh.

My accountant is waiting on my W-2 from the mouse. I can't find it anywhere, and the mouse will take a week to get a copy to me :( There's supposed to be a way to pull it up online, but I think that only works if you pull it up on a company computer - and naturally the company computer center closes before I could ever make it up there during the week.