These Are Very Taxing Time and They Are Taxing My Brain
@bagarad (14283)
Paso Robles, California
April 11, 2019 1:32am CST
There seem to be some big changes in Turbo Tax this year, and they have caused me hours of frustration and going around in circles while trying to do my taxes. They are complex enough without bugs in the program.
My husband doesn't do computers, but he does like to look over the forms after I enter the preliminary data so he can make suggestions or detect errors. It seems the forms won't print from the program this year until the return is in final form to mail in. I won't bore you with the horrendous problems I had making the effort to print before I finally found out my efforts were futile on the Turbo Tax site.
I guess people weren't paying attention to the note on the previews that they were only previews and should not be filed. People filed them. So now we can't print out an isolated form from the program to review. I can print blank forms from the IRS site, but I don't want to fill them in by hand just to show Hubby. I have decided to photograph them instead on my cell phone and review them on that. It's amazing how useful my smartphone is turning out to be.
I just want this whole tax thing to be over so I can go on with my life and start writing again. The pressure is on to finish, but I have a doctor appointment Thursday and my elder nephew I haven't seen since Thanksgiving will be passing through on Friday while he's on vacation. I'm hoping I can talk him into our getting together at Sculpterra Winery instead of the house, because right now the entire living room is covered with tax stuff. Besides that, I need to get out. I think we'd all enjoy the winery more. It's like a park and it's full of beautiful sculptures and the picnic tables are round with chairs. Beats park tables with benches.
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
11 Apr 19
I hate turbo tax did me dirty in past I did H&R block and people always say you do not get as big of a return because they work for government but at least they do not do you dirty. I actually called IRS one time asking what Turbo Tax is talking about and trust me not an easy feeling, but IRS said you fine, something they are doing and of course Turbo Tax never responds back but sure took my money. Why I am with my sister on this one just file the old fashioned way.
I do hear you, hate tax season, love spring favorite time of year but get rid of the taxes. 
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
11 Apr 19
My husband wants to go back to the old-fashioned way, but with two businesses of mine and three, going on four rental properties, I think it will be too complex. He will have to do it and he'll be eighty by next year. His memory isn't so good anymore, and he can barely keep the checkbook in order. He forgets to record checks, uses the wrong numbers, and if it weren't for the carbons and online banking I'd never keep it straight.
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
11 Apr 19
@bagarad I hear that 50 bucks or even price of admission is not no big deal. Every dollar I lose hurts but when that busy it makes sense to do how you do it.
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@LadyDuck (502934)
• Italy
12 Apr 19
@bagarad This year it has been more complex because of the inheritance from my mother. The apartment is in Italy, the money I received came from Italy, so there is also a conversion from the Euro to Swiss Francs. For the rest is not so much complex, if you keep your documents all together, it's not too hard to fill the forms.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
12 Apr 19
A few weeks ago, it took me two days and glad I mailed it and out of the way. I tried on the computer but found it more difficult than doing it by hand, I just took my time! 
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
12 Apr 19
@bagarad Yes, everything is so complicated.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
12 Apr 19
My earnings are from bank deposits and some pension - no hassles whatsoever.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 Apr 19
I got to the end this year, and Turbo Tax said you can't submit online. I called, they fixed something, I submitted and they ended up mailing me a check because my bank information was wrong. But the bank information wasn't wrong. Geez.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
16 Apr 19
@DocAndersen I still have to file amended returns for 2016 and 2017 for depreciation we didn't' claim those years. Not looking forward to it, but at least I have a return to copy that my accountant did for 2015.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
15 Apr 19
@bagarad I actually filed mine, and then found out one of the places I do some side work for, didn't send me a w2 until March!
I had to file an amended return. Arrrgghhh
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@jstory07 (148807)
• Roseburg, Oregon
17 Apr 19
We just go to Liberty taxes and have them do our tax returns every year.
@wolfgirl569 (136117)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Apr 19
Hope you get the taxes done soon. They changed a lot of things this year.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Apr 19
Doing taxes is such a pain. They make it complicated with endless forms.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
12 Apr 19
For sure. I couldn't believe it. I donate a lot of book inventory from my closing business. My husband makes small one-time donations to a lot of different charities and causes besides the larger church donations. This year there was a separate worksheet Turbo Tax generated for every single charity. Each page had just a few lines of print. No wonder so many file electronically. Hubby doesn't like to do that. He likes to print and mail the taxes. So do I when we are this late. I'm always afraid if I file electronically on the last day and there's a glitch I'll be late.
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