Mark calls it right on this one.
“There’s twenty things on that page, CF, to what, pray tell, are you referring?”
This part:
Asinine. Utterly. And confusing as well. I used the web version of TurboTax this year to do my taxes, and was overall greatly pleased with the experience. Finished up and filed electronically. Yeehaw, all done. TurboTax told me I should “check up” on my taxes in a couple of days to make certain that the feds and local idjits had accepted them. Fine. I came back a few days later, and lo and behold they were accepted. Halelujah. Then it said I wasn’t done yet. 20 pages of printouts later I had this aforementioned form sitting in my hands.
Here’s the cute parts, to my mind.
- Must be signed and returned no later than one day after they are accepted. Cute. Pithy. First, am I supposed to refresh every 15 to 20 minutes to see if they deigned to accept my taxes? I can just see me sitting there every day, asking like a kid on a trip to Disney World “are we there yet?!” My. Ass.
- Please enclose copies of W2s, 1099s, and anything having to do with lines blah and bleh on form floop. Excuse me? Didn’t you just accept my taxes as filed? Don’t you people get copies of these things sent as well? “Here, please file your taxes and then, for good measure, please file your taxes. Could you then file your taxes?”
I’m personally in favor of as little idiocy as possible. As a general rule. This certainly doesn’t match that definition, even remotely.
“And if it’s not too much trouble, go ahead and file those taxes.”
now listening to String::All This Time::Fields of Gold
