The Dog Ate My Wallet

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The Things I Learn Doing My Own Taxes

I almost always do our taxes twice. I do a preliminary run through as soon as we have all (or most) of our paperwork. And later I’ll sit down with TurboTax and do a complete return. I like to know what’s coming up. This week, partly in preparation for yesterday’s Coffee Talk post, I did the first run through of our 2011 return. Last year, we owed around $1,100. This year, C only received half asread more…

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February Coffee Talk- What does your tax return say about you?

This post is part of February Coffee Talk, as hosted by First Gen American. Please check out her site to see all the other entries in the series.   What can you learn about me from my tax return? There are a lot of the standard little things. Married, somewhat traditional- we have the same last name, C’s name is listed first on the tax return. No kids. We own our home. We have lots ofread more…