I actually got my income tax returns filed, federal and state, later the same day that I made that last post. As usual, it wasn't really that big of a deal. In retrospect, now that it's done, part of me has trouble relating to how "painful" it felt while I was doing it. However, it's not the first time that has happened, and I know I'm not the only person who has had that experience. It's an interesting question, really: why do many people have a sense of dread about "doing the taxes", even if their rational minds know that it's never (well, hardly ever) as terrible an experience as anticipation paints it to be? But I'm not going to try to answer that, at the moment. Instead, I thought I'd mention that for the second year running, I used TaxACT Online -- a Web-based service that can be found at https://www.taxactonline.com -- and that they probably deserve some of the credit. In the past, I've used TurboTax and TaxCut (as programs installed on a Windows PC), and one other Web-based service, CompleteTax. TaxACT certainly isn't perfect, but, for what it's worth, it's the first one that hasn't left me saying to myself "I really should keep looking: there's got to be something better out there." By the way, just for the record, I don't work for them, nor have any other connection with them, other than being a (relatively) satisfied customer.
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