I still complete my taxes using a stone and chisel Tim
Ali Corbin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FWIW, I used a pencil and occasionally added and subtracted and >> multiplied using my preferred calculator, GNU CLISP. �When I had >> pencilled everything in, I filled in the forms with the fillable PDF's >> provided by the various taxing agencies. >> >> > So long as we're flaunting our ludditeness, I also use a pencil and paper. > But I do the addition and subtraction on an abacus (quicker than a calculator) > and check it in my head with the rule of nines. > > Once, years ago, I tried using a web-based tax service, one in which you just > answered questions and it did all of the computations for you. But the answer > that it came up with was obviously wrong (ie, much different from the taxes > that I'd paid the previous year). And it wouldn't show me what it had > filled out > in the schedules so I couldn't tell where the problem was. So I went back to > pencil and paper. > > Ali > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
