doing taxes

Monday, February 04, 2008

I've been in panic mode any time I think about my taxes for the past year. I kind of assumed that I would need to hire a CPA to do them so everything was done right. Do you know how expensive it is to have a CPA do your taxes? Yeesh. After some research, I started to consider doing them myself. When the TaxCut program came in the mail weeks ago, I stuck it at my desk to look at it and agonize some more. Last week I finally just decided to go with it. Josh was all for it so I installed the software and started working on our taxes.

It's surprisingly not that difficult. Sure, there are things that I had no idea what they meant. Lucky for Josh and I, we're pretty straight forward and don't have a lot of "other things". I put in my Knight Light income and deductions and was very happy to have my spreadsheet with everything broken out.

I ended up filing electronically Thursday night and I feel so relieved. I don't even worry that I screwed something up. I think those software programs are fairly dummy-proof, plus I save receipts. If only I had known how easy all of this was, I wouldn't have needed to worry for months. How many hundreds of times have I said that about something!?

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posted by kimberly, 7:00 AM