The Mac Geek Club of Number 254 for April 12th, 2010. Greetings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

Here from Durham, New Hampshire I am Dave Hamilton and on the other end is

Chion of Braun here in Fairfield, Connecticut and as far as you know.

Yeah last I checked, but um, oh my gosh, Dave, we're getting close to that big day.

Unless you file an extension of course.

Oh yes, we're getting close to the day by which I must file my extension.

I actually did, I actually did the paperwork about three weeks ago and since I owe a little money I basically

put it off until the last minute.

Well I do it on pencil and paper, you know, in some ways I'm still retro, but I do not use tax software. I just, I download the PDFs from the IRS site and, you know, well the booklet I go through that I do it on

pen and paper you know I got all my paper receipts and stuff and then when I

submitted I actually do it on the PDFs because I think they can process those

easier than you know if it's handwritten.

Then I print them up, I have copies and then send it in.

But yeah, I owe a little money.

It's weird because I owe money for federal, but I got a little back from the state.

Can't figure that out anyway so yeah

you either file an extension or file your taxes I will file an extension my

my taxes are always I don't have all the data I need. Often I don't even have it by

April 15th, but this year I think I will. It'll be close. I'm still waiting on one of the K-1s from

Backbeat media, but yeah, I always wait till October anyway.

So do you use, do you do it by hand or do you use software?

Oh, I, John, you're going to love this. I'm completely inefficient about the way that I do taxes.

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