Each year, I promise myself that I will gather the information for my taxes by February. Our CPA does the taxes. All I have to do is gather the information and get it to her. One day I hope to startle her by dropping the packet off on March 1st!
Unfortunately, it wasn't this year. I had everything gathered together, and finally sat down March 31st to read the instructions. The first line that caught my eye was "In order to be able to prepare your taxes in time, we need your tax planner by April 1st." Luckily, I had the information on Quick Books, and all the 1099s and W2s were in the folder. I spent an evening checking off boxes and filling in the blanks, and dropped the planner off the next morning. I wonder how many others wait til the last day? I'll have to ask her sometime.
My taxes are relatively simple. They aren't simple enough to use the EZ form, but they are not so complex that it takes weeks to do them. Still, I was astounded when the CPA called the next day with the preliminary taxes complete! She had one question, and the taxes could be sent electronically.
YAAAAHOOOOOOOO!!!! My taxes are done!
Next year, I'll have to be ready early, just to say "Thank you!" for such phenominal service!
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HH asked me for my tax info this morning (well, yesterday, since it is past midnight now). I handed him the folder that I'd kept tax info in for the previous year and awaited the explosion. It was late in coming. At about noon he asked where my information from a brokerage firm was--his having missed it because it was folded and looked like "info" instead of "data". Around 4:00 PM, he got to the explosion. I have shares in a couple of limited partnerships that have driven him wild ever since he started doing our joint return (until the year after his retirement, we filed separately.) I wouldn't dare sell those shares. Tax time would be no fun at all!
Posted by Cop Car | April 4, 2004 4:47 AM
Posted on April 4, 2004 04:47