January 2006

It’s Tax Time

income taxes
It’s that time of the year again. I have an appointment with my CPA tomorrow to have my taxes done. I am not expecting as large of a return as I normally do, for reason’s I think I’ll keep to myself, but I am excited none the less.

About the CPA-
We started going to this CPA a couple of years ago because my wife was selling Creative Memories scrapbooking stuff and the taxes got a bit too complicated to do on Turbotax. So, we started seeing Cyndi.

I honestly thought I could save money by doing it myself, and not have to pay her the $135+ fee to do them for us. However, afterwards I am glad we did and will always have her do my taxes, and this is why:

- She maximized our deductions, and we ended up getting nearly a thousand dollars more back than I had originally calculated.

- She provides copies of everything, nicely bound for safe keeping.

- The service really isn’t that expensive, and is in itself tax deductible.

If you are on the fence about hiring a CPA to do your taxes and you don’t qualify to fill out the EZ form, I’d say have someone else do it!

Website Reviews – New Policy

I have decided to make a new Bradsblog policy regarding reviews. Only one a day, Max. I know that these are not really normally a hot topic to read, it serves as a commercial. They pay the bills.

So, If/when I do more of these reviews that might not be that interesting, I will limit them to one per day.

Not to tie my hands too much, I might on occassion do a website review and another kind of review within the same day.

I currently do not have any reviews lined up.

Could it be a comeack for me?

Well, I think I might be coming out of my rut. I feel the blog juices starting to flow once again. This is the seventh blog post today.

Certainly, there is no possible way I can keep this pace up, so I’ll try to take it easy.