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offcntrBecause Saturday Market starts the first weekend of April, I always try to tackle my taxes early, and have them out of the way when the spring pottery-selling season starts. I just started today.
I do my own taxes, using computer software. Started with Intuit, back when it was called MacInTax, but they had a nasty habit of jumping operating systems every year, making me upgrade, and causing me to buy a new used computer at least twice.
So I switched over to HR Block, and have managed to keep ahead of system upgrades for a while. It operates on more or less the same interview system, lets me type in the numbers which it then puts in the right blanks, does all the math, checks for mistakes, and either prints out the proper forms or helps me file them online when I'm finished.
Odd thing, though. It starts with income, and starts that asking about 1099s. There are three kinds I deal with: 1099-INT (interest), 1099-DIV (dividends), and 1099-MISC (what it says on the label).
The tax program saves interest and dividend information from year to year, I just have to click "edit" and go in and add this year's amounts. But it doesn't save miscellaneous.
I get four 1099-MISCs every year, two from galleries, two from cooperative pottery shows. Every year, I have to enter everything from scratch: payer, address, federal ID number, amount. It's a pain in the butt.
Why don't they carry over? What do they think about self-employed folk, that we don't have long-term business relationships? It's a question that nags at me, every year around this time.
I do my own taxes, using computer software. Started with Intuit, back when it was called MacInTax, but they had a nasty habit of jumping operating systems every year, making me upgrade, and causing me to buy a new used computer at least twice.
So I switched over to HR Block, and have managed to keep ahead of system upgrades for a while. It operates on more or less the same interview system, lets me type in the numbers which it then puts in the right blanks, does all the math, checks for mistakes, and either prints out the proper forms or helps me file them online when I'm finished.
Odd thing, though. It starts with income, and starts that asking about 1099s. There are three kinds I deal with: 1099-INT (interest), 1099-DIV (dividends), and 1099-MISC (what it says on the label).
The tax program saves interest and dividend information from year to year, I just have to click "edit" and go in and add this year's amounts. But it doesn't save miscellaneous.
I get four 1099-MISCs every year, two from galleries, two from cooperative pottery shows. Every year, I have to enter everything from scratch: payer, address, federal ID number, amount. It's a pain in the butt.
Why don't they carry over? What do they think about self-employed folk, that we don't have long-term business relationships? It's a question that nags at me, every year around this time.