I like to pay taxes.
With them I buy civilization.~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
OK, nobody really likes to pay taxes. But the order-loving side of me enjoys the calculations involved, the collecting of relevant papers, the sorting of numbers and then the filing away of another year.
Even though everybody and their mother insists that you should have “someone” do your taxes when they get the slightest bit complicated (my husband lives in one state and works in another part of the time, I am a freelancer and independent contractor), I’ve always used Turbo Tax. It’s easy and gets easier every year. It took me less than an hour to prepare my tax returns for federal and two states, and I can do it in my sweats while watching TV (always a selling point). And then it printed out vouchers for me to use while paying my estimated taxes for 2010.
Turbo Tax also saves your info from year to year, and now is linked to Mint.com. Mint is a free online budgeting and tracking system that I just recently signed up for, and I can already see how much easier it’s going to make next year’s taxes– I can just flag anything that was purchased for business, and it’ll upload next year along with real estate taxes and mortgage interest as appropriate for deductions. AWESOME. Turbo Tax is also linked to Quicken and Microsoft Money, but as I don’t use those programs, I can’t speak as to how seamless that process is.
Anyhoo, the reason I’m telling you all this is because Kelly, a lovely local lady over at The Centsible Life, DM’d me on Twitter last week to let me know that I’d won a gift card for Turbo Tax– but I’d already done my taxes the week before! Nothing unusual there, really; that’s how my life works.
I was hoping that it would still be good next year, but alas, it specifies 2009.
So my loss is your gain! Win a Turbo Tax Deluxe gift card– redeemable at TurboTax.com and good for one free federal + state preparation and e-file with TurboTax Deluxe Online 2009.
Just leave me a reply below letting me know how you feel about taxtime to enter, and on Sunday, February 28th at midnight I’ll pull a random winner.
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