TaxCut giveaway #1: What’s your favorite tax-time ritual?

The folks at H&R Block have generously offered three free copies of TaxCut Premium + Federal e-file to give away to my readers!

Here is some information provided by the sponsor for TaxCut Premium + Federal e-file:

Report investments, dividends, retirement income and home sales.
Includes videos that help explain specific situations such as home office deductions and the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Supports Schedule A for itemizing and Schedule C for self-employment.
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So, you want some? Here’s what you do:

Just comment on this post and you’re entered! One entry per person. The winner will be chosen randomly.
Optionally, tell me your favorite tax-time ritual. It can be practical, funny, weird, sweet, whatever. (But keep it clean!) I’ll read them and list my favorites in a future post.
The first giveaway will be over when I announce the first TaxCut winner. Then I’ll get the next giveaway rolling!
You must leave an e-mail address in the appropriate field in your comment if you want me to contact you to tell you that you’ve won!
At that point, I’ll ask the winner for mailing information so that I can pass it on to the sponsor, who will mail the product to you. I presume this will be a smooth process but I assume no responsibility if it doesn’t reach you for some reason.

Enjoy!

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14 Responses to “TaxCut giveaway #1: What’s your favorite tax-time ritual?”
By Richard Carpenter on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

The process is simple. We keep all our bills, (for the past 10 years!) in in a 2 drawer file cabinet. In February or early March we get all the year end stiff together total it, and send it to an old accounting teacher of mine, who is a CPA.
Maybe this year we can do it ourselves,
By John French on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

My favorite ritual? An easy answer: printing up scads of copies of the final forms and mailing them off to the different tax agencies. And I have used Tax Cut for this for many years!
By Amanda on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

Does procrastination count as a tax-time ritual? I always have great goals of completing my taxes in February, but it has been years since I actually did get them done that early.
By Nate on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

No favorite rituals here . . . but the best part has to be when they’re finally done (especially if a refund is coming)!
By Kyle on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

My favorite thing to do at tax time is fill out my forms in Crayon and mail them off to the IRS…

…just kidding. Although, I do like to print off as many forms as I can and mail in the paper copies to file. They take my time to do fill out their tax forms, they can take the same amount of time to read my forms by hand.
By Amit on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

Head off to a tax preparer and get taxes done.
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By Kristen on Mar 1, 2009 | Reply

favorite ritual, getting my parents to babysit so we can do our taxes, and then tacking on a date night to the end of it.
By Aryn on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

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By mindy on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply

to get it over with as quick as possible thanks for the giveaway
By greg on Mar 4, 2009 | Reply

My new favorite ritual is to volunteer to help someone complete their return for them. Feels good to see someone replace the look of worry and concern with a look of relief.
By Kathryn on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply

We take our youngest two (last ones living at home) to our State Farm insurance agent. About 4 years ago we put them on the payroll of our company. They never get paid more than minimum wage, work mostly during the summer and school holidays, and have to split their check up as follows: 10% giving account, 45% savings, 45% spend/checking account.

The last 3 Springs we have gifted them their salaries. In other words, however much they earned the previous year (usually a few hundred dollars or less), we would match that amount and fund their Roth IRA accounts.

We opened the accounts their with much fanfare (it’s a great family friendly office). The head agent gave them each a (fake, of course) $1 Million dollar bill to remind them that they could have a million dollars tax free by continuing to fund their accounts.

The youngest just turned 13 and her older sister is 16. Both have just over $1,000 each in their Roth IRAs. It’s not much now but we’ll continue the practice at least through the end of high school. When we opened the account the younger child kept boasting about how she would forever be richer than her sister. Fed up, the older sibling finally asked why the younger one thought she’d be richer. Answer: compound interest. “I’m younger and have almost 4 more years to have compound interest work for me than you do.”

In case you are wondering. Yes, it is legal for kids to work in their parent’s business at so young an age. Their tasks are mostly clerical. They box up the files out at the end of the year, create new files for the new year, match receipts to statements, help reconcile bank & credit card statements, file, shred, reorder/put away books in our reference library, keep office dusted and vacuumed, etc.
By Julia on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply

I’d actually not even heard of tax time rituals. I’ll have to think of something creative for the future… or maybe I’ll just stick with something that tastes good while filling out forms.
By VANESSA on Jul 5, 2009 | Reply

MY THING TO DO AT TAX TIME IS GET MY LAND TAXES PAYED WITH THEM AND YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM ALL YEAR