Usually my husband does the taxes but this year he just wasn't in the mood so he asked if I would do them. I was a little hesitant because taxes scare me even though I'm not an idiot. It was easy! Probably took me 3 hours all together including printing them and e-filing. Would have been faster but we had a lot of deductions and I used the online help to get more value for our goods that we donated. I'm glad I did it though because we really undervalued the items we donated!
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I have been using Turbo Tax for many years. When I bought a new computer, I was delighted that loading last year's return from a CD-R was easy, and 2013 Turbo Tax found all the returns from that. E-filing is a joy, without having to mail all the forms/W-2s/1099's etc in .
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