Simplify Filing Your Taxes with Turbotax 2012
Each year around mid-January I start to get rude reminders in the mail that I'll soon need to work on filing my income taxes. Before you get the wrong ideas about these rude reminders, I'm simply talking about the various tax forms mailed to me such as wage and interest statements.The only good thing about doing my taxes is that I've been using the same tool for well over 20 years (and before it even had its current name). Starting a new year's tax form is as easy as importing data from the previous year. Then I let TurboTax walk me through all of the questions until I'm done.
I think one of the parts I appreciate the most is that I don't get all of my information at once. So I'll fill in a few things on one day and then return a week or two later to fill in a few more things. When everything is complete, I let TurboTax e-file the forms for me.
Sure, you can do it manually. I can't even imagine how stressful that would be. Sure, there are free tools for doing taxes online. They might be OK for people who have very simple taxes, but I like the piece of mind having the data on my system along with the software to walk me through everything. Spending $40 to do that is worth it! And yes, I could have a "tax pro" do it. I find collecting all of the information is by far the hardest part and that would still be required if I had someone do my taxes.
If you've used TurboTax before, I'm guessing there is a good chance you'll continue to use it. For those who haven't tried it, I highly recommend it. And for those outside of the US, we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.
More on FontExpert
A couple of days ago I mentioned FontExpert in the Downloading Fonts, Installing Fonts and Spam Filters post. A loyal reader asked if I could say a bit more on FontExpert. I have posted on previous versions of it in past posts and I'll add the latest version to my to-do list for the near future. Until I get the new post written, you may want to read FontExpert 2009 for Font Management and/or Alternative Choices for Font Management.Labels: weekend-widget
posted by Foster D. Coburn III at
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Allen wrote in an e-mail:
I agree with your praise of TurboTax and smiled at your parting comment "for those outside of the US, we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow."
As a U.S. citizen living in Canada, My wife and I first file jointly a 1040 return in the U.S., and then we file our personal T1 Canadian tax returns here on Prince Edward Island. I too use TurboTax for our U.S. returns, and have done so for so many years that I have no recollection of when this tax software first became available. When I relocated from Bethesda, Maryland to Canada in 2001, I used a comparable Canadian income tax software product, QuickTax. QuickTax did the job, but was far less intuitive than TurboTax. Intuit acquired QuickTax several years ago and improved the program and instructions significantly. In the company’s infinite wisdom they named this new product: TurboTax!!
Having used and given feedback on beta versions of the Canadian TurboTax program, I had urged adoption of a distinguishing name so that folks like me and Canadians living and working in the U.S. might not confuse their TurboTax software programs, but to no avail. Adding insult to injury, Intuit also markets their Canadian T2 corporate software program as TurboTax as well. Obviously, I rename the TurboTax folders to distinguish among the three TurboTax programs we have to use each year.
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