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It’s tax season again
via Kraig's Blog by Craig on March 16, 2008
No one likes to pay taxes. What I find even worse is all the work that goes into figuring out how much, to whom, and when you have to pay. I’ve used TurboTax for the past few years to help with this problem. Last year was the first year that I needed to use the ‘Premier’ edition of the service. Good lord, there were about 7000 questions. I’m about to start the process again this year. The web site has gotten progressively better each year, and this year, there are discounted rates for Vanguard customers.
Here’s the first thing that I noticed about the website.
Basic Deluxe Premier Clearly, I am not being marketed to correctly here. I really want to click on the ‘Basic’ service link, but the text below it describes limited services and mentions the cleverly named 1040EZ form for all of the poor-but-pretty people out there (apparently). The text below the ‘Premier’ edition is clearly my situation, but I really don’t want to click on the old-greying man wearing the daring lavender button-down (they must have casual Fridays at his office). The fact that my age-to-earnings ratio is so wildly outside of the TurboTax target audience makes me wonder why I’m not using an accountant. Then I realized that the reason I’m not using an accountant is the same reason I don’t fit into the target TurboTax demographic… Stupid taxes, what a silly, overly complicated mess!
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