The tax man cometh

I have been working on my taxes for the last few days. Having earned the CPA designation and working in the accounting area for the last 25 years I feel I SHOULD have the expertise to do my own taxes - whether I do or not is a horse of a different color.

Actually, the main reason I so my own is.....I hate paying someone to fill in forms or answer questions on a computer, that I could do myself. By the time one organizes all the records, receipts, expense reports, etc etc into a format that it makes sense, all that is left is the filling in of the blanks in TurboTax or Tax Cut or whatever one chooses to use. So I spend a couple of days to get it all together and put it in the forms. Of course I don't want to pay until I absolutely HAVE to so whatever balance may be due gets paid at 11:59 PM on April 15^th. Wouldn't want them to have my money any sooner that they need it.

Honestly, I don't mind paying taxes. Our government provides many necessary services that wouldn't get done if we had no taxes. I am just grateful we don't get as much government as we pay for!!

Roxanne Mrasek