Comments on: TurboTax Server Delays Cause Late Filings

By: lunacy

lunacy — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:16:05 +0000

I filed Monday morning with TurboTax, yet this afternoon I get email notification that my filing occurred today, the 18th.

I wouldn't call Monday morning the last minute if I have thru Tuesday afternoon.

However, I am miffed that the turbotax effort on Monday morning didn't get me a "postmark" of the time I actually hit the submit button.

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:39:16 +0000

I filed at the last minute because, as a freelancer, I was definitely paying a non-trivial amount. This was before the glut, but TurboTax still kept giving me error messages that didn't make sense. Luckily, the NYC post office was, to my utter shock, almost empty come deadline time.

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By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:27:15 +0000

If you're paying, especially a non-trivial amount, it makes sense to delay--albeit not until quite literally the last minute. Simply putting the return in the mail makes sense if you're filing early but if you're filing latish you'll want a return receipt.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:19:53 +0000

We were smart and did them weeks ago. Did them ourselves but didn't really have a complicated return for us this year.

We owed some this year so we sent our return in by mail with our check last Friday.

You get all the information by the end of January. There is no excuse to wait until the last minute. And you can drop return in the mail.

But I did help out a coworker. Last week she was talking about all the dental work she had done last year. I told her it could be deductible.

She didn't have time to put it together by yesterday and is getting a refund either way so I told her to file an extension.

It looks like her dental deduction is bigger than the standard one and she'll get about 200 dollars more.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:42:12 +0000

Personally, I would lay at least soem of the blame on the idiots who waited until the last second.

It's like getting up at 5 to 8 in the monring jumping in the car and being your nose outta joint because there's traffic on your ride in.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:08:14 +0000

I understand that you can indeed file directly with the IRS. TurboTax and others help you prepare your returns by asking a series of questions. I used them for several years but, as my tax situation got more complicated, was apparently screwing myself out of quite a few legit deductions.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:53:48 +0000

The whole notion of privatized e-filing, instead of being able to do it over an IRS website, is idiotic. Only in America, I suspect.