Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for April 10, 2010
April 09, 2010
April 11, 2010
Transcript:
Man: Of course, you could have tried the do-it-yourself tax prep software... ...But only a seasoned professional can guide you through the mind-boggling complexities of tax law in these challenging times and give you the clear answers you so desperately need! Cathy: You found deductions?? Man: Nope. Irving: "NOPE"?? That's it??! Man: The software would have given you hours of false hope.
Jascat over 14 years ago
Good morning, all! Where is everybody? :-)
dicatduke over 14 years ago
I’m here! (I know, I know, ‘who are you?’) I very glad my taxes aren’t complicated!
mrslukeskywalker over 14 years ago
Cathy has had YEARS of false hope with Irving. She prefers false hope, and the leeches that come with it to no hope at all.
I bet this quack of an accountant is married to the saleswoman/waitress!
I figured it out first. : ) Wooohooo for me.
funnyfan928 over 14 years ago
Or possibly her brother.
I think at tax time we all want a bit of false hope…namely that we’ll actually get a BIG tax refund. Such is the stuff of dreams.
mrslukeskywalker over 14 years ago
She’s no spring chicken either.
Imagine how they laugh and laugh over dinner each night as they exchange stories of what they did to Cathy today.
If you’re getting a BIG tax refund, you’re having too much withheld. That’s YOUR money, not the government’s. You should be working it so that you either pay a small amount, or get a small amount back, and in that case, hope you don’t get an IOU instead. Especially from your state. I’m an accountant.
RadioTom over 14 years ago
Did my own sans special software; just a generic spreadsheet I developed several years ago; other than the PITA of getting the new tax tables imported, works fine. Managed a rather nice refund, as well. Since you have to transfer the data to the online forms (or the downloaded PDFs) anyway, why bother doing the expensive stuff? It’d be nice if the tax tables were available as a CSV file, though..
gobblingup Premium Member over 14 years ago
It’s all false hope, just like the lottery…
Hello, Jascat and everyone!
Smiley Rmom over 14 years ago
RadioTom - I did it the same way as you each year until now. After trying to figure out the best way to deduct college expenses (and a 99 page IRS publication is a pain to read as a PDF), I gave up and bought TurboTax. Turns out there were some new tax credits I wasn’t aware of, those law makers in Washington are so busy making new laws, it is hard to keep up with them all. TurboTax made them into a PDF for me, which I’ve printed out and am mailing in. Only complaint was that it assumed if you wanted to mail in your return, you didn’t want direct deposit for your refund. But by filling out Form 8888, I solved that problem.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago
Good one MrsLuke – they’re made for each other.
jcc21 over 14 years ago
Have used TurboTax for many, many years. Even with some complicated stuff we had a while ago related to hubby’s business (one of his colleagues spent almost $1000 for an accountant and we did ours with Turbo Tax. Compared the info and it was the same but we saved $$$$ by doing it ourselves)
Always have filed electronically with TurboTax and gotten refunds direct deposited. No problems with that.