I was using that as a generic term. In fact she can play games moving virtual cash between different investment accounts, so the end result is a higher balance in our longer-term, higher- interest accounts. Like I said - she's the professional here.
In any case, just about any strategy beats letting the feds have the use of the money for any longer that necessary. On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:40:03PM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Not much interest on those accounts these days. > You may need to re-think that strategy... > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:33 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > > > My wife the accountant decided that this year it was worth paying > > a professional Tax preparer, rather than using TurboTax again; > > this year filing was a whole lot more complicated than last year. > > I don't argue with her when it comes to decisions like that. > > > > I'm pretty sure the fees we were charged were somewhat less than > > the savings from a couple of allowances we weren't claiming before. > > The fees were certainly less than 10x the tax bill we ended up with; > > we try not to make loans to the government, so we generally have to > > send off a four-figure sum with the return (we aim for as large an > > amount due as possible without the risk of incurring penalties). > > Rather than let the government take it off our payroll checks, > > my wife will stick the funds in a short-term investment account. > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:15:49PM -0500, Paul Sorenson wrote: > >> Yup - been using TurboTax for close to 20 years. ?Happy with the > >> results and it's sure cheaper than paying a preparer. > >> > >> -p > >> > >> On 4/16/2011 2:53 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> >Turbo Tax Home and Business > >> > > >> >On Apr 16, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> > > >> >>The cost of the ?tax preparer this year outstripped what I owed in > >> >>taxes by almost 10:1. Grr. > >> >>If it had been more reasonable, I would likely have used the money to > >> >>buy a plane ticket somewhere ... Oh well. That will have to wait a > >> >>little. > >> >> > >> >>On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mark Roberts<m...@robertstech.com> > >> >>?wrote: > >> >>>Noticed that my income tax refund had appeared on my bank statement > >> >>>today. And it was several hundred dollars *more* than I'd asked for. > >> >>>Seems I made a mistake in the government's favor and they caught it > >> >>>and corrected it. I suspect some enablement may result... > >> >>-- > >> >>Godfrey > >> >> ? godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > >> >> > >> >>-- > >> >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> >>PDML@pdml.net > >> >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> >>to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> >>follow the directions. > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
