Help!, or, Post-Tax Stress Syndrome
So I'm that guy who waited until 9pm on April 17th to do my taxes. In my defense, the guy who was supposed to do them said they were in the mail and his voicemail has been full since this afternoon. But they're done now, four hours after my wife dropped off two fat checks with extensions at the post office (not to be confused with two fat chicks with extensions). Which brings me to my first question: should I wait until the IRS receives my mailed extension before e-filing my taxes, especially since I declared that I had already paid them all with the extension?
The second question doesn't quite hurt the brain as much. I've been using Blinksale now for several months to track client invoices; and as much in love with the interface as I am, I realized tonight that I need something to keep track of business expenses, receipts, etc. I found several really nice looking programs for the Mac, but they deal primarily with project tracking and invoicing. QuickBooks looks great, but I almost think it's overkill (and expensive). I really wanted to get Quicken Home and Business, but they don't make it for the Mac. I don't want overly complex (i.e. payroll) and yet I'm afraid Quicken vanilla might not do the trick.
Anyone out there in a similar situation got some pointers for me?
(Oh, and if you find something broken around here, don't worry, I'm in the middle of spring cleaning...)
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18 April 20072. John:
So, that explains why you didn't help me from 7-10 last night. What were you thinking? ROFL.
John
18 April 20073. beemerchef & Spirit:
Yes... what were you thinking!!! Vacation is over... forget that sunset on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon cozying up with the wife!!!... (I was there... I saw them... I left them alone...). May reality take over...
Be well....
Ara & Spirit
18 April 20074. mandi:
yipes...this post makes me feel panicky...my throat is closing up i think...
unfortunately, most of the first paragraph was greek to me...all i can say is god speed and i'm thinking of you in the stress...
19 April 20075. ren:
Tsk Tsk. I did my taxes last month. It's actually fabulously simple to use the IRS's e-file system. Even simpler than TurboTax. And cheaper.
Can't help you with the accounting software. I don't even balance my checkbook. Yeah Yeah Yeah--you can stop with the gasping and faces now. I also have to invoices to track. So there you go.
19 April 20076. Kelly:
Did you get the extention request in to them on time? That matters some. But, I don't think the late penalty is too much to really stress out about. It's only those people who avoid paying the taxes that really need to fret. As long as the IRS gets their money, they're pretty much okay with deadlines and such; at least they have been with us. Good luck and go for a run or something!
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18 April 20071. Doug:
We use the Quickbooks online edition - which, as you said, is quite expensive. It works very well for us, but we also have a lot of customers to track. Once you start working with Quickbooks they make it very difficult for you to work with any other program ... or even stop working with them.
Try contacting your bank. Talk to a small business loan manager. They might have some very good options on what to try. They often have good opinions of how you should manage your money.
Sounds like you probably shouldn't talk to your tax guy about it.