So it’s my first year of actually having to do taxes on my own, and it’s a giant, giant pain, even with the aid of TurboTax. While most traditional twenty-two years olds sit and home, play World of Warcraft, and have relatively simple tax returns, my situation is uniquely unwieldly, as I have not only Georgia employment income, but also Alabama income, sole proprietorship income, short-term investments, long term stock investments, and mutual funds. And of course, it doesn’t help that I’m an electronic kind of guy and have absolutely no paper records whatsoever.
I’m a reasonably intelligent person with a college degree in Engineering, and I’ve thus concluded that there is no way that even five percent of the American population can correctly calculate their tax returns. Then again, if your tax return is incredibly easy, you’re probably being retarded with your money by letting it sit idly in your savings account.
