TurboTax 2008 taxes completed

As a follow-up to my previous post, I was able to get logged in tonight to TurboTax and finalize both my federal and state taxes. Yay! It’s nice to have that done and behind me. Now I just wait for the refund so I can turn it over to the credit card people.

TurboTax…I’m annoyed

I was going to do my taxes this evening, but TurboTax isn’t cooperating. The website kicked me out part way through, and I’ve been unable to get consistently logged back in. I was in one more time just long enough to see that my previous entries stuck, but I couldn’t do anything else. I kept winding up at a new login screen. Makes me wonder if the rest of the world is trying to do their taxes online too.

Do any of the rest of you use TurboTax or do you do it the old fashioned way with pencil and paper? I’ve used TurboTax for at least the past three years, and never really had any problem until now.

The taxman cometh

I made myself sit down and do my taxes today. It’s a miserable experience, but at least I’m getting a return this year. In recent years I’ve kept my withholding so low that I ended up owing money. It was a decision I made for assorted reasons, but it was always painful at this time of year to start asking, “So, how much do I owe this time?” This past year I had enough taken out that I’ll get a small sum back. When I say small, I mean small, but small is better than nothing.

Also, there is the rebate to look forward to later this year. I understand the government is spending about $42 million to send letters to everybody who filed last year letting them know they should get a rebate.

At least now I can spend the rest of the weekend without that nagging voice in the back of my brain reminding me I needed to do my filing.

How about everyone else, have you all done your taxes?