In what may be a new record for me, I’ve almost finished my personal taxes. And it’s only February 1!
Yesterday I spent the bulk of the day working on my corporate taxes. Usually it’s an exercise in frustration, figuring out where all of the numbers go, but since I took the time to organize all of the income and expenses to the penny, I knew I had all of the data I needed. Then it was a matter of finding the fields in the tax software. Unlike years past, once I found them I took notes so I can repeat the process next year without so much headache. (Why didn’t I do that ten years ago?)
With my corporate returns in hand, it was pretty straightforward to enter everything for my personal return today. I’m still sad that the IRS has tax rules so complex that an entire industry has risen to support them, but H&R Block’s Taxcut software helps tremendously by asking the right questions and walking me through the gazillions of forms and numbers.
I’m waiting for a few documents from various places so I can plug in mortgage interest and dividends and IRA contributions and whatnot, but I feel like I’m close… and it’s not April. Even better, it looks like Uncle Sam might owe me some money. For a change.
