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I go in pretty much every two weeks and donate blood - typically a double platelet and plasma. I hit 20 gallons with my donation today - that's 160 donations! I used to donate only whole blood until a couple of years ago, and that meant I could only donate 6 times a year, so this achievement has been a LONG time coming.
Give blood and save a life!!!
Give blood and save a life!!!
Also I do have some investments that require the higher levels of tax prep software or a person just to understand (mostly the whole foreign tax credit stuff on my VTIAX holding) but for the most part, the government knows what we owe or get back, why can't this just be automated and we only file if we disagree?
Probably because it might lead to the ultra-wealthy paying their fair share.
Probably because it might lead to the ultra-wealthy paying their fair share.
What set me off is the fact that you have to buy a new version of the software every year. I missed the second half of Clippers/Suns and the first half of Wolves/Nuggets last night, because I had to go help my mom upgrade her TurboTax software. I am annoyed by the fact that they can't won't just push through an update to your already purchased software, containing any pertinent changes to tax law, or whatever else might be needed, rather than make you go and get TurboTax 2KXX+Y every year.
Yeah, I get that. It is stupid, especially for something like taxes that are generally the same every year (same forms, same user inputs, etc.) with a few tweaks and updated formulas (for determining the taxes you owe based on current tax law).
They screwed up the software a few years back (user input interface changed, etc., that I thought was pretty bad), but I think they switched back the next year.
Also agreed.
They screwed up the software a few years back (user input interface changed, etc., that I thought was pretty bad), but I think they switched back the next year.
Also agreed.
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I find this annoying but I started buying the disc/download version from Costco which is a lot cheaper than doing it online or buying the software straight from Intuit. A loooong time ago, I used to get is severely discounted or almost free from my bank, but sadly that stopped long ago. I'm so looped into their system having used it since I first filed my own taxes that I'd rather not change at this point.
Since two moderators have already chimed in on this, I feel I should point out that the latter doesn't seem to follow from the former. The self-filing method seems silly to me too. But if the government knows how much you should pay, it should also know how much the ultra-wealthy should pay, so I don't see how they get away paying less under the self-filing method.
I suppose you could argue that the wealthy may have "hidden" income that the government doesn't know about - but if that's the case, the self-filing method would result in MORE revenue to the government. Why? Because in the government-bill method, if the government doesn't bill you for your income, then you know they don't know about it and you can get away with not paying taxes on it. In the self-file method at least you have to wonder if the government might know about your "hidden" income and you might declare it just to be safe.
Now, if the self-file method were a true "honor system" then you'd be right, but since by your former assertion it's really more a "trap system" the idea that it's designed to let rich people get off seems...unlikely.
I suppose you could argue that the wealthy may have "hidden" income that the government doesn't know about - but if that's the case, the self-filing method would result in MORE revenue to the government. Why? Because in the government-bill method, if the government doesn't bill you for your income, then you know they don't know about it and you can get away with not paying taxes on it. In the self-file method at least you have to wonder if the government might know about your "hidden" income and you might declare it just to be safe.
Now, if the self-file method were a true "honor system" then you'd be right, but since by your former assertion it's really more a "trap system" the idea that it's designed to let rich people get off seems...unlikely.