E-filing seems like such a good idea.

It saves me a trip to the post-office to buy postage for my ridiculously heavy return(s).  It saves a tree (or at least a fraction thereof).  It eliminates errors due to printing and rescanning.  It eliminates the potential headache of my paperwork getting lost or soggy or shredded.  It saves the government so much manual labor that they’re closing processing centers that used to hire hundreds of seasonal workers.  The government is saving a bundle.

So why do they charge for e-filing?! Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Andover, e-filing, electronic filing, estimated taxes

While this is not a tax tip, I thought this news item might be of interest to folks in the local area.  The IRS will stop processing tax returns at the Andover facility in September 2009, due to the increase in e-filing, eliminating over 700 full-time and part-time jobs.  In addition, the IRS hired only 400 seasonal employees this year, compared to 1,000 in 2008.

Eagle-Tribune, Jan 03, 2009

Tags: Andover, e-filing, news