It’s April 15th, and y’all know what that means: Happy Tax Day!
Kudos and thanks to my better half, who stayed up until the wee hours last night helping me navigate the vagaries of the Federal (plus 3 different State) returns: AVW, you’re simply the best.
So, to honor of my favorite educator, here’s a quote from an old Democrat pol – and a guy who knew a thing or two whereof he spoke…
A THOUGHT FOR TAX DAY:
“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), president, architect, & author
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It was Prop 13‘s negative effect on education in the Golden State (look it up!) that induced us to migrate from CA to CO back in ’94. Now that a bit of a reverse migration has occurred, we find that FTB’s forms are as bewildering as ever (sorry, BRG!). But thanks be to TaxAct – and TurboTax, and all the rest – there now are online packages to assist. Without their help turning relatively straightforward Q&A into 54-convoluted-pages of 1040, 540-NR, DR-104, and K-40 gobble-de-gook, the task would be well nigh impossible.
Even for a guy as smart as Thomas Jefferson.
BRG users Turbo Tax to smooth out the pot hole filled road to the end of the form where it informs me of how much more I owe.