Shout out as you finish and mail your taxes today.
Aceplace57 - taxes are done!!! Who hoo heading to post office on the way in to work.
The Postal Service screwed everybody’s fun by announcing they weren’t extending their pickups till midnight on tax day. The radio stations here used to setup a remote broadcast at the pick up center for last minute tax filers.
That mean you better now the latest pickup location in your city. Mine is 14 miles away at the Post Office Distribution Center. Their last pickup is at 7pm M-F
I thought only tax places like H&R Block could file electronically? Or maybe if you pay for Turbo Tax software it does it too?
I did my own this year using the fill-in pdf’s on the IRS site. Printed them and mailed.
Typically I go to a tax place when something changes. Like when I bought my house, and needed to itemize deductions for my mortgage interest. After the tax place did it one year, then I did it from then on using there’s as a template.
Next year I have to start reporting stock dividends that I inherited. So I’ll use a tax place that one time and get a new template.
I mailed my in yesterday. I used to mail mine on the day after the due date to see if anyone actually noticed the 4/16 postmark in the flood of returns coming in. Never got called on it. Now that I’m paying a much larger amount, I don’t want to tempt fate or play games anymore. I do miss the days of my young and irresponsible youth.
Also have gotten my state and federal refunds. E-filed both with Turbo Tax. The latest Turbo Tax edition seemed much improved, especially for doing Schedule Cs.
Mailed mine Monday morning. First time in years that I’ve completed and mailed my return prior to the due date. I always end up owing a bit, and I’ve deluded myself into thinking I’ve somehow stuck to The Man by hanging on to the money (a whopping $68 this year) until the last possible moment.
Yes, I’m sure e-file is more convenient, but I like actual paper and stamp. Makes the whole process more concrete.
I finished the returns last week but didn’t file them until last night (e-file), but I owe to both state & fed, so I mailed in the checks. Wife dropped them off at the P.O. a couple hours ago. She also mailed the first installment of our estimated 2012 taxes to both state & fed. Wrote a few big fat checks last night. To pay electronically would have added a fee, so I wrote checks.
This past year I actually did stick it to The Man by not paying any taxes the second half of 2011. The amount I made in various investments was more than the penalty assessed by the government for underpaying on my estimates.
