Time not well spent.
For years I have spent the same amount of time doing my taxes, 15 minutes. It started when I was making $14,000 a year as a zoo employee. Not much you can do tax wise as a single non-house owner who makes that much money to change your taxes. So I filed the simplest form I could. It became habit, every year just grab the simple form fill out the dozen questions and mail it off… Done. About five years ago I was doing a lot of contract work this made my taxes more complicated. More line on the simplest for to fill out. It annoyed me that my taxes were taking more then the standard 15 minutes to complete. Well this year it happened. I can no longer fill out the simplest tax form. My income is now over the limit. I now have to think about my taxes. You are saying to your self "What is the big deal?" This… I HAVE TO FIND DEDUCTIONS, a house, kids, wives, elderly parents anything! (The use of a ',' in the last sentence with out a 'and' was for dramatic effect and is not a example of good grammar. This statement is to explain to Word 2000 why I made such a greaves error in hopes that it will remove the little squiggles from under the word 'elderly') So you see I have been avoiding growing up and being an adult by avoiding my thinking about the adult subject of taxes. But no more… pass me the mini van.