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Jan. 24th, 2003 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI didn't know you could fill out and file your taxes on the web, did you? I've been doing it electronically for several years, so when my office's chief accountant came around today and handed me my W-2's, I went to http://www.taxcut.com to see if I could download Kiplinger's Tax Cut, the software I've been using this whole time. They offered to let me do my taxes on the web without buying the software; it'd be $19.95 to file a federal return, and $9.95 to file a state return, electronically.
Now, it costs around $15 (sometimes more) to file electronically no matter what you do. It's faster than paper filing and you get your notification of 'yes, the Feds accepted the return' or 'no, you made a big boo boo' within a day or two. If you're due for a refund, you get the refund within about two weeks; if you have to pay, you have until April 15 to do so. Not having to purchase the software is, compared to previous years, a bargain. I have no deductions and I have no real investments - retirement plan foo, sure, but that's about it. I've got the Lifetime Learning Credit because I was pursuing a degree last year, but I know how much I spent on tuition/fees/books. The only thing I'm missing is my 1099-INT forms - but those are for accounts that were so often empty that I doubt I made more than $25 or $30 total interest for the year. (Look, when you're paying your grad school tuition out of pocket, no employer assistance no student loan no nothin', you empty the savings account pretty quickly.)
The site's secure, and I've filed like this before, so... I'll be filing my taxes this afternoon. It looks like I'm due a nice refund. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime, I'm hungry and have this terrible urge to use chopsticks, so I suspect a phone call to Veggie Heaven is in order.
Now, it costs around $15 (sometimes more) to file electronically no matter what you do. It's faster than paper filing and you get your notification of 'yes, the Feds accepted the return' or 'no, you made a big boo boo' within a day or two. If you're due for a refund, you get the refund within about two weeks; if you have to pay, you have until April 15 to do so. Not having to purchase the software is, compared to previous years, a bargain. I have no deductions and I have no real investments - retirement plan foo, sure, but that's about it. I've got the Lifetime Learning Credit because I was pursuing a degree last year, but I know how much I spent on tuition/fees/books. The only thing I'm missing is my 1099-INT forms - but those are for accounts that were so often empty that I doubt I made more than $25 or $30 total interest for the year. (Look, when you're paying your grad school tuition out of pocket, no employer assistance no student loan no nothin', you empty the savings account pretty quickly.)
The site's secure, and I've filed like this before, so... I'll be filing my taxes this afternoon. It looks like I'm due a nice refund. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime, I'm hungry and have this terrible urge to use chopsticks, so I suspect a phone call to Veggie Heaven is in order.
