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No one told me it's the last week to file tax returns....ick
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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 419593" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>When in doubt file for an extension if you feel pretty sure you have paid nearly all of the taxes you will owe or if you can send that money with the extension. Better to take an extra week or more than make a mistake and have to amend in my humble opinion.</p><p></p><p>The deadline this year is April 18th.</p><p></p><p>If you have an electronic calendar on your computer or your phone, you might consider putting those dates into your calendar now for the next several years with several weeks lead time reminders to do the taxes or insurance or whatever.</p><p></p><p>Our taxes were a huge headache this year and I ended up hiring a CPA to the tune of nearly $600 to do them. Ouch. The IRS issued a new ruling that same sex married couples in states with community property (CA, WA and NV) have to do income splitting on their separate federal returns for 2010. Of course they didn't make this widely known until December 2010 and didn't actually issue the "rules" for doing it until Feb. 18, 2011. So our tax planning for 2010 was useless since it was based on completely different assumptions. It took me 4 days to prepare all the docs to hand over to the CPA and another 2 days to enter all the medical expenses into a spreadsheet by date/provider/amount/patient/mileage so she could sort the list and decide which of us should take which dependent(s). Over 400 entries ...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Patricia</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 419593, member: 7948"] When in doubt file for an extension if you feel pretty sure you have paid nearly all of the taxes you will owe or if you can send that money with the extension. Better to take an extra week or more than make a mistake and have to amend in my humble opinion. The deadline this year is April 18th. If you have an electronic calendar on your computer or your phone, you might consider putting those dates into your calendar now for the next several years with several weeks lead time reminders to do the taxes or insurance or whatever. Our taxes were a huge headache this year and I ended up hiring a CPA to the tune of nearly $600 to do them. Ouch. The IRS issued a new ruling that same sex married couples in states with community property (CA, WA and NV) have to do income splitting on their separate federal returns for 2010. Of course they didn't make this widely known until December 2010 and didn't actually issue the "rules" for doing it until Feb. 18, 2011. So our tax planning for 2010 was useless since it was based on completely different assumptions. It took me 4 days to prepare all the docs to hand over to the CPA and another 2 days to enter all the medical expenses into a spreadsheet by date/provider/amount/patient/mileage so she could sort the list and decide which of us should take which dependent(s). Over 400 entries ... Patricia [/QUOTE]
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