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January 31, 2008

The Early Tax Bird

I pounded through our taxes the last two nights and got them finished. Yes, I realize that it’s early, but I hate walking near my desk and seeing all of those forms laying there and knowing that at some point I have to crunch the numbers. So this year I just decided to do it as soon as I got all of my forms.

tax_forms.jpgI started to use TurboTax Online (which is what I used last year), but when I finished going through all of the steps, I realized that it was incorrectly taxing me on some HSA contributions, and there was no way to fix it as far as I could see. So I threw in the towel with TurboTax and did it ALL by hand.

Yes, I’m a huge nerd. But you know what? I not only saved the TurboTax fees (which were going to end up costing us over $100), but I got about $800 more back on my refund by doing it correctly.

Of course, as soon as I finished them last night, a friend happened to tell me that they’re revising about half a dozen tax forms that won’t be out until February.

CRAP!

But I checked, and none of them apply to us, so we’re good.

Had I had to wait or redo anything, I think I would have puked.

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One Response to “The Early Tax Bird”

  1. Robbie said:
    March 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    Hi Josh,

    I had a friend recently recommend to me a company called OnePriceTaxes. What’s awesome about them is that they donate 30% of their earnings towards church planting in Europe. It only cost $9.95 for me to do both my federal and state tax returns (e-file included). Maybe you should try them out!

    http://www.onepricetaxes.com

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