Tax update (final)

[mdlbear]

Well, the forms are printing. I couldn't track down the hotel receipts from Loscon, so that's one deduction out the window. It's a bit dubious anyway (out-of-pocket expenses for a non-profit convention; might work, OTOH it might get me audited). And there was some computer hardware that I probably could have written off but decided not to -- again, didn't want to push my luck.

So they go in the mail in the morning, because I'm darned if I'm going to pay $15 extra to beat my head against the e-filing idiocy yet again. Now I can get back to the fun stuff, like cleaning the office, pulling weeds in the front yard, and arranging for my next sigmoidoscopy.

Comments

[nolly.livejournal.com]

If one or more of your family staffed Loscon, I think it counts as volunteer work of the right sort.
But I am not a tax professional.

[mdlbear]

I don't believe any of us were volunteering this year. Slight case of burnout. And in any case I couldn't find the receipts.

[callibr8]

E-filing idiocy? What happened?

I bought Turbo Tax for the first time in over a decade, this year, and used it, and it reported that it e-filed both my state and federal returns just fine. Should I be concerned about something?

[mdlbear]

I've tried e-filing three or four times now; it's never worked. Part of the problem, of course, is that I tend to file at the last minute and you don't know whether your e-filing went through until 24 hours have gone by. Basically if I don't allow a week for troubleshooting, it's a crapshoot.

The other thing is that it costs some $15 extra (with TaxCut -- your mileage may vary); even with certified-mail/return-receipt, postage only cost me $10 this year.