Today I got to do something I haven’t done in years. Fill out a Federal tax return by hand. In running the error check on the final return of the 3 I was working on, I get a nice message from Turbo Tax saying, “Hmmm, well, this just isn’t going to work for you.” Mind you, the key piece of information that caused it to pat me on the head and send me on my way to the IRS website for new and different forms was entered in the system in the first 5 minutes of the process. Couldn’t tell me then, could ya?
Dear god, I’d forgotten how much doing taxes by hand is like a damned Choose Your Own Adventure book… Every line directs you to another form, another line, which directs you to yet another page in the instruction book and pretty soon you’ve got the entire floor covered with pieces of paper and strings connecting all the various lines.
Now I get to print the forms out again and try to fill them out neatly…
