Clearly we are heading toward the day when you’ll be able to file your tax return with IRS Already this year there are pilot projects allowing large professional preparers to supply returns in this manner. It’s safe to predict that within about five years, you’ll be able to submit returns by modem if you have a program like one of those reviewed here. —B.S. It is important to realize that these programs provide limited help on the two most important apsects of preparing a tax return: getting your records together and finding out the little deductions you might not know about but that can really add up. They will let you do some tax planning for next year and will ask you for the information all at once, but they don’t collect the data for you. While both programs provide online IRS instructions, they are certainly not in the business ...
Two Tax Programs for the IBM PC
Nothing is certain but death and taxes, goes the old saw. And while there are programs that can help you write your will (and I suppose one could devise a far-fetched scenario involving medical databases) there really isn’t much that you and your PC can do about the former of these certainties. There is, however, a class of programs that can make filling out tax returns more pleasant and less time-consuming, if not outright fun. One of the leading IBM PC programs is TURBO TAX. The lead
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