It’s only January, even though it’s already two weeks into the month now, but that still means that it’s nearly tax season!
You heard that right, with April 15th almost just four months away, now is the time to begin with filing that 1040 Form.
The time has come to get all your documents together.
Now is the time to pay a visit to your accountant, or just make it yourself and get everything over with already – now!
Or procrastinate at your own risk.
Most variations of the 1040 Form are simple to handle by yourself, unless you own a fat and complex investment portfolio or something of the sort, such as real estate etc.
But of course the whole thing is burdensome to begin with, which is why even completely poor people go to the trouble and expense of hiring someone else to prepare their returns for them!
But procrastination is a dangerous thing when it comes to the government’s money.
You could be fined and/or (and note how that’s “and/or” – not merely one or the other, but [rather] possibly both!) imprisoned for being late.
It’s happened to others; why not you?
Seriously, the 1040 Form is so easy to do, usually, that it’s the height of ignorance to cover tax preparation that can cost between fifteen to thirty percent of your expected refund!
That’s not even talking about the extra cost of filing electronically – which is free, actually, for those making less than twenty-five thousand dollars a year if carried out through a third-party website associated with the IRS.
It’s amazing how much money can be made filling out people’s tax forms for them!
Even charging just a “discount” rate of thirty to fifty dollars a pop with a client base of only ten to twenty people, that’s between three hundred to a thousand dollars in a week – for what might not even amount to ten hours of work overall!