I am amazed at how many of my friends are still working on their taxes.  Guys, don’t you realize what kind of lines you will have to wait in to get things mailed?  I’m especially amazed at the people who are hoping to get everything done over their lunch hour today.  Seems like a bad [...]

Anyone dreading April 15? Not me! I have a dinner date with an old friend that night. But maybe more importantly, I finished my taxes weeks ago.

I am in training this week, hence the lack of blog posts. But I did have an interesting financial conversation yesterday. A guy in my group is foreign [...]

So I finally got back to work on Friday.  It was an insane commute, and of course, maybe 15% of my coworkers were there.  So I chatted a lot, cleared out e-mail, did a few tasks, and then sat around.  When you go on vacation, it’s normal to come back to a lot of work, [...]

Thanks to TurboTax, I finished and submitted my tax returns this weekend.

Final result?

Well, on the up side, I didn’t owe any money, a significant change from last year.

But in trying to balance that, I ended up paying too much in taxes, so I’m getting back around $2000.  So I need to make some adjustments.

The state [...]

What are you doing this weekend?

I’m doing my taxes!  Yay!

(No, that wasn’t sarcasm.)

My last tax form is now available online, so this weekend, I will be doing my taxes and finding out just how well I estimated.  I’m really hoping I estimated poorly and I get a chunk of money back, but I’m just not [...]