John, 0.25% on $100,000 is $250 for a full year. A partial year is less. I stopped worrying about squeezing the last $1,000 out of the checking account so I could earn more interest in the longer term accounts. Just not worth it. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was using that as a generic term. In fact she can play games > moving virtual cash between different investment accounts, so > the end result is a higher balance in our longer-term, higher- > interest accounts. Like I said - she's the professional here. > > In any case, just about any strategy beats letting the feds > have the use of the money for any longer that necessary. > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:40:03PM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> 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. > > -- > 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.
