Not much interest on those accounts these days. You may need to re-think that strategy... Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:33 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > My wife the accountant decided that this year it was worth paying > a professional Tax preparer, rather than using TurboTax again; > this year filing was a whole lot more complicated than last year. > I don't argue with her when it comes to decisions like that. > > I'm pretty sure the fees we were charged were somewhat less than > the savings from a couple of allowances we weren't claiming before. > The fees were certainly less than 10x the tax bill we ended up with; > we try not to make loans to the government, so we generally have to > send off a four-figure sum with the return (we aim for as large an > amount due as possible without the risk of incurring penalties). > Rather than let the government take it off our payroll checks, > my wife will stick the funds in a short-term investment account. > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:15:49PM -0500, Paul Sorenson wrote: >> Yup - been using TurboTax for close to 20 years. Happy with the >> results and it's sure cheaper than paying a preparer. >> >> -p >> >> On 4/16/2011 2:53 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >Turbo Tax Home and Business >> > >> >On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> > >> >>The cost of the tax preparer this year outstripped what I owed in >> >>taxes by almost 10:1. Grr. >> >>If it had been more reasonable, I would likely have used the money to >> >>buy a plane ticket somewhere ... Oh well. That will have to wait a >> >>little. >> >> >> >>On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mark Roberts<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>Noticed that my income tax refund had appeared on my bank statement >> >>>today. And it was several hundred dollars *more* than I'd asked for. >> >>>Seems I made a mistake in the government's favor and they caught it >> >>>and corrected it. I suspect some enablement may result... >> >>-- >> >>Godfrey >> >> godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com >> >> >> >>-- >> >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> >>[email protected] >> >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >>to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> >>follow the directions. >> > >> >> >> -- >> Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
