Did anyone else using Turbo Tax get the free federal filing?

That's why we use it.

That's why we use it.

When I filled my return out just using my old bookmark from last year, I was charged $9.95. But when I logged out and went through the IRS website, I got that fee waved. And the additional money off my state filing.

It wasn't advertised on TT's site--just on the IRS site. Last year it was only people 65 & over or people filing under a certain amount that got the free thing. At least I know I paid for using TT last year.

It makes so much sense to me that the IRS would want people filing online -- it's got to be so much easier for them.

We actually use TaxCut from the box, which has a mail in rebate for free federal filing.

I think I used TurboTax on the web last year or the year before to do my state filing. Whichever year it was that Mass. decided to stop their own free web filing and funnel the business to TurboTax instead (who says that lobbyists don't earn their salaries). They gave a one-off voucher that year for people who had used the old system.

It was very annoying when Mass. dropped the free web filing. It was really quick and really easy, but never advertised and pretty hard to find on their web site. Then they dropped it due to lack of interest. Maybe if you'd told people about it, they might have used it!

I'm looking at you CITIBANK and your missing 1099-INT!

Bank Of America says to not bother them until the 15th of February. My 401K people sent me a pretty much blank 1099 whatever yesterday. Why BofA gotta make me wait?

Bob sent me a link to a National Review article about why there are so many more males in the comedy business than females and it contained the following:

Can you share the link? When I was in Montreal, as many women would workshop as men, but a teeny percentage of them ever made it past an audition. They were so tense and self-conscious, in comparison to most of the guys. The class clown tradition just didn't seem have been one they prepared with.

So, I'm heading off to a meeting yesterday.

"ita!" She's running to catch up with me. "You know, you look better in skirts than in pants."

I'm wearing pants.

"You stopped me so you could tell me I look like crap."

"I didn't ..."

"You might as well have -- you stopped me to tell me you didn't really like what I was wearing."

"Well, no I ..."

"That's really cold. If the boss asks were I am, tell her I'm in the ladies', crying."

"But I meant ..."

I let her twist in the wind for a while before I suggested the better way to go about it is to wait until a day I'm wearing a skirt and tell me how much she likes that, and maybe skip mentioning the pants entirely.

We'll see.

We actually use TaxCut from the box, which has a mail in rebate for free federal filing.

Oops. My brain is melty. Good thing you're doing the taxes this year.

What an amatuer. Her correct response after

"That's really cold. If the boss asks were I am, tell her I'm in the ladies', crying."

was to skip away singing "I made ita cry-y. I made ita cry-y.".

What an amatuer.

Oh, she's a total tyro. That's why it's so fun.

Oh my. Some people. Too many, actually.

Everyone should take lessons in niceness from msbelle.