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From: F27FRAJP@CARLETON.BITNET (GEORGE FRAJKOR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MULTI-TAXING
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Date: 8 Jan 88 21:27:00 GMT
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 THE oddball discussions on multi-tasking have made me wonder why
no one has thought of the obvious use-- figguring out your taxes. I
don't know if the US system is as silly as Canada's, but what has
always bugged me here is that you have to fill out innumerable
different schedules and calculate them depending on where your money
is coming from, because different sources of income are taxed
or treated differentlty. So you run your tax program. All is well
until it asks you to fill out sked 4, capital gains from real estate.
So you stop and start filling in what property you bought, how much
of it you sold, what proportion of the gain is taxable, etc. And you
go back and fill in one figure. Then it asks you about dividend
income from domestic corporations (taxed at one rate) and from
foreign corporations (taxed at another) and you stop to figure that
one out.   Then it asks you to fill in your income from the oustide
consultancy work you've done that year, (minus expenses allowable)
and so on and so on.  Does no one see here what multi-tasking can do?
 In the background you can have a batch of separate schedule programs
doing the dog work all at once and feeding the results into the
main tax program.
  Software writers who haven't yet thought of this -- go ahead and
use my idea.  Just remember to send me a copy of the program. Canadian
form, please.