I’m finally done my taxes
It’s everyone’s favourite season this time a year; I would be referring to the tax season for us Canadians. Filing is due by the end of April and everyone is now rushing to do their taxes since we all love to prorastinate so much.
I started doing them a few days ago and spread over this tiresome chore for the past few days. It’s better if you do it that way as you won’t get frustrated at doing it so much.
I’ve been using Quicktaxweb for the past 7 years now and it’s great. It saves me from having to look through previous returns and filling in numbers here and there. Moreover, it calculates everything that needs to be calculated and puts numbers in places you never knew had boxes! Essentially, all the anal little details are done for you by the good folks at Quicktax. I think the $24.95 is a small price to pay for such a stress-relieving product.
Do I know exactly what it’s doing? Well, not really.
Do I care? Sure I do! The online software allows me to check over every little detail on screen to ensure that I put in the correct values, and that the program calculated everything properly. It even gives me hints on how to reduce my taxes and make my money stretch.
Fortunately for this year, I will be getting some money back. That’s reassuring gas I could sure use some right about now. Had I put my RRSPs against my income this year, I would have nearly doubled my refund… but I’ll save them RRSPs for another year when I make more money.
So my headache for the year is over… at least tax related… unless of course I get audited, in which case you’ll yet find me pulling my hair out all over again. Urgh. I sure hope I don’t!

