I can't believe that I have waited this long to prepare my taxes. I'm not sure what caused the delay, but I've been blaming it on this endless, cold and depressing winter. Much better than blaming it on my own old age and laziness...
So, this weekend is dedicated to Tax Preparation. I have all the paperwork and forms ready. Taxes have been the talk of the workplace all week -mostly stuff like "You do your own taxes? Really?"
Talk like that makes me feel a little bit freakish. "What??? I have always done my own taxes - what's the big deal?" I felt a little better today when a female co-worker announced that she always did her own taxes - "It's easy!" she declared. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's easy, but it certainly isn't rocket science.
I had three years of leisure when my pastor hooked me up with an ex-convict who needed to do charity work as part of his parole. I never knew what the guy did to get himself in jail, but the years of leisure ended when the man was killed in a car accident.
My father was a professional tax preparer. It was totally unplanned, but he managed to die on April 15th. So, there are lots of memories for me this time of year. I have more than one reason for not liking the 15th of April.
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I did my own taxes for most of my life and did taxes for other people many times (one year I think I did five 1040EZ forms total for various friends and family). Not any more though. Now that I have my own business and things are quite nearly as simple as they used to be, I pay an accountant to do the "dirty work" for me. I still have to write and sign the checks that I send in to my dear old Uncle Sam and I find that to be quite enough.
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