Teens & Taxes
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| Wed, 02-01-2006 - 12:10pm |
I sent my oldest DD (almost 24) an e-mail the other day reminding her that I needed her paperwork to do her taxes. I very hopefully suggested that she could do them herself. She called later that evening laughing hysterically. I thought she was crying, hurt, been attacked, etc. I'm wanting to book a flight, charter a private jet, whatever to get to her. Youngest DD took the phone away from and managed to understand - oldest DD was in tears laughing at my suggestion that she do her own taxes...
This got me to thinking that I need to do things differently with 17 y/o so this year she gets to watch me do hers. Won't that be fun - a hormonal middle age woman, a hormonal 17 y/o girl with b/f problems, and the IRS!!! I wonder if the insanity defense will work (just kidding).

I agree with you completely. DH used to drive with his job and he wouldn't keep his paperwork like he should and even though I was an accounting major in college and did corporate accounting at the time, I flat refused to do ours. I paid someone else - less arguments betweeun the two of us that way. Now that our income situation is much simpler, I just use TurboTax and there are no arguments.
I think I am going to make my 17 y/o sit down with me this year and watch me do hers and I will probably not use TurboTax for hers. I think it would just be simpler to use the IRS forms for her.