[mdlug] Open Source accounting software

[Michael Corral]

2010-01-28, Monsieur Dan Pritts a ecrit:
> I paid someone to do my (not super complicated, but i need a 1040
> not 1040A or EZ) taxes for a few years.
>
> Then I realized that most of the work was collecting all the data,
> and that I was paying them $150 to sit in front of turbotax for an
> hour and mail me the results.  I was going in person to drop
> everything off, which probably took an hour out of my day (as i
> write this i realize i should have mailed it).
>
> I now pay $50 for turbotax, spend the hour locked in a small cold damp room
> (actually, my living room, listening to music), and i'm done.

So you've gone from paying a person $150 to do what you could do yourself,
to paying $50 for software to do what you could do yourself.

I've got that beat. I also use the full 1040 form, but I pay $0 and do
it all - get this! - *by hand*, with no software. Crazy, ain't it? :)

Michael