Can I Scream Here?

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Yes, I'm well into my taxes now. I just wish Hubby and I organized our records the same way. He likes to keep his records at the other house, and I keep mine here. He likes to write things in a black book and file the receipts and records in a large accordion folder with a system I don't understand. Example. We bank and have credit cards at both Chase and City Bank. Sometimes he files some of each under "C". Sometimes he files some of each under "credit cards" or "banks." Trying to find anything is like a treasure hunt. If I ask about something he hasn't written down, he says, "It's in my file." I'm afraid there were a few raised voices here tonight. I like to keep a tax organizer on my desk and put receipts and bills and records in it as I get or pay them. It makes it easy to do my part of the data entry. It's much harder to do his, since I have to retrieve everything from him -- all those year-end statements, 1099's etc. I have only mine. Tonight he forgot to bring the black book home and we had to go after it and bring it back here. I also grabbed his file and brought it here. I have finished both my schedule C's now and most of the personal stuff. Schedule E for three rentals is about all that remains, except the checking and error clean-up. Unfortunately, Schedule E is his data to find and write down in some form to be usable to me. I enter everything into Turbotax. By the time we got back tonight, I was ready to enter the data for a certain tax on a vacant lot we own. I couldn't find it in the checkbook under the right year. Couldn't find the original bill. Looked up the bills online to see when they were paid and got even more confused. I think he made a mistake in when he claimed it last year but it's been like working a complicated puzzle and he doesn't see why it matters. I want everything to fit where it belongs. He doesn't understand why I care so much which year something was paid in. So as I'm writing this, he informs me he left his flannel shirt he uses as a jacket at the other house. His cell phone is in it. He thinks he should go back after it. I think he should wait until morning since it's after ten. I think I talked him into waiting. What sorts of things cause the most frustration between you and your spouse or significant other? What's tax time like at your house? Even if you hire someone to do them, you still have to get the data ready to give that person.