Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!emory!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!ptsfa!rkm From: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: MacinTax - INFO NEEDED Message-ID: <5923@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> Date: 11 Dec 90 01:47:42 GMT References: Reply-To: rkm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 32 In article jae@iastate.edu (Edwards John Andrew) writes: This "about-to-be-release" package has been around for about 5 years now. I have been using it for 3 years to track my personal taxes and the three small businesses I mess with. This, in conjunction with Quicken, keeps me on top of my finances pretty much. Nothing fancy like stock tracking, etc. but good enough to keep me out of trouble. The best thing is the ability to put in information in the middle of the year and estimate the remainder and see how much additional taxes I will have to pay (so far I've never come out not owing more). Of course, those calculations are based on the previous years' tables, but it's close. Updates are about $50 per year (and deductible). The best part is that I have been able to speed up my filing each year and I only use my tax accountant to check the filing and tell me where I did something wrong. My tax preparation bill has gone down by a lot more than the software cost. The forms generated are acceptable to the IRS. There are even built in worksheets so you can itemize things like travel expenses and only have the totals show up on the Form C, but the itemization sheet is available should you ever get audited. For the cost, it's even good just to be able to do "what if's" or projections. I'm, obviously, happy with it. -- Richard K. Mossman {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!rkm 415/823-0974 ========================================================================= "I need to put some distance between overkill and me!" -- E. John (1988)