Death and Taxes

Tax time is coming up.  I’m not exactly looking forward to it.  I should be getting a refund, so that’s not the problem.  The problem is finding all the paperwork I need to complete my taxes.  Even if I have someone do it for me, I still need to find all that awful paperwork.  Did I get all my W-2s (how many am I supposed to have this year)?  What about the 1099s and the 1098s?  Will I have to fill out the 8812 or the 8888?  Where do I keep everyone’s SSNs?  It also seems like I am most motivated to get my taxes done January 1st but most of my information doesn’t come until February.  With everything being computerized now, I don’t think it should take a whole month to send out my income information and forget about even possibly seeing it early – it comes the last day legally possible.  I don’t really see the benefit to companies of putting that off.  Ah well, I’ll make it my New Year’s resolution to have patience with the tax system.

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