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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (74426)	9/11/2003 6:14:24 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Taxes for the self-employed are more complicated. Percentages of many expenses are involved, and receipts in many categories are. I have to pull out figures from the credit cards, check book, bank statements, cash receipts, and put them into categories for TurboTax before I ever get to the pieces of paper that arrive in the mail. It's quite horrible. Especially when I know I'd have more deductions if we'd been good about receipts. For example, I can't find a single receipt for NYC parking. Sometimes it has been tax deductible, and $50. Same with taxi fares, except for to airports. I have bridge tolls paid automatically (EZ Pass), but the slips of paper on which I jotted down a memo "receipt" to tell me that that particular trip over the GWB was tax deductible... they have dissolved, I think.