[quote=spdrun]I’d rather have the software that runs on MY computer — I’m not f–king exposing personal financial data to the “cloud” more than I have to. The more personal data online, the more opportunities for privacy-rape. Yeah, yeah, bank accounts are already accessible online; but they’re not all in one place with the same login/password combo.
This being said, I use Excel and the fill-in PDF tax forms, then send them via snail-mail. If it costs the gov’t more to process them, good. Maybe there will be a few less bucks in the pockets of the bloated defense and over-militarized law enforcement industries.[/quote]
I will never send in paper snail mail tax forms again. True story. Back about 6 years ago I sent in a paper snail mail tax return. You can imagine my surprise when I got a letter from the IRS that said I had $700,000 due. I got audited due to this. I knew it had to be wrong as I didn’t even make nearly that amount for that tax year!!!
It turns out that the IRS lost several pages of my Schedule D -1 forms. That year I did monster trading and I had a few dozen pages of D1 forms. I don’t know how they lost them but they just calculated my cost basis on my trades as $0. It was a nightmare.
After that I just have filed electronically. I will never send in paper forms again after that. Yes the IRS makes mistakes and loses paperwork.
I can’t tell you how much time and aggravation I spent on that one. In the end I had to pay about $3,700 more which was no big deal. But once you get audited, you can get audited again in the future. After that I got audited 2 more times. But didn’t have to pay more and in one of the times I get $9 back.
