# Your 1040: when did you file? And how did you prepare your return?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 16, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082 "2003-04-16T15:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082/41 "2003-04-17T17:37:55Z")

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Last week, by hand, snail mail.

All I had was my W-2 and 2 form 1099s. It took about fifteen minutes.

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**Author:** ![Blueapple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blueapple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueapple)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082/42 "2003-04-18T17:47:26Z")

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Haven’t yet.

I do it by hand, but have been busy lately, so i’ll probably send it in on Saturday.

The Gov’t owes me money (both federal and state) as in years past, so I doubt they will complain if it is a few days late.

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**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082/43 "2003-04-19T20:39:50Z")

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I did a dry run on a paper form in February which showed I owed $2000. That couldn’t possibly be right so I put the whole ugly mess out of my head until April 8th. I prepared my taxes using Turbo Tax on April 6. I had a friend with more financial knowledge than I have look them over and filed (by mail) on the 15th at about 2:00pm.

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**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-1040-when-did-you-file-and-how-did-you-prepare-your-return/169082/44 "2003-04-20T01:19:00Z")

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I had phone tax! Did both the fed and state taxes by phone in about half an hour the evening of the 15th. I came out nearly even, with the state giving what the feds took away.

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