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October 13, 2005
Scary thought: I might be good at this!
Taxes, that is. I did reasonably well on the first midterm in ACC 375 (see below), and generally, most of the concepts we're covering in Tax I seem fairly intuitive. Part of it is that I've been filing tax returns for a long time -- most years, filing a Schedule C because of income earned playing music or doing consulting work, and then getting married to someone with a paper trail that makes taxes a little more complicated -- so the material isn't entirely new to me, the way it probably is to a lot of the 21-year-olds.
The scary thought is that if I turn out to have more aptitude for taxes than expected, I could conceivably end up doing it for a living -- ack!
Which is not to say that Jack and Barbara (our trusty tax accountants -- also see below) are going to lose a client. It's different when they're your own taxes you're doing; that is something I am not the least bit interested in. In fact, when I interviewed with a Big Four accounting firm the other day, my interviewer confessed that despite being a CPA, even he doesn't do his own taxes!
Posted by Urbie at October 13, 2005 08:37 AM
Comments
Paper trail or the Original Old Dragon and her Consort? You pick ;-)
Posted by: Meg at October 14, 2005 07:10 AM
Meg, you mean someone reads this stuff?
Posted by: koletc at October 15, 2005 08:51 AM
You just did, Phil!
Posted by: Urb at October 15, 2005 04:00 PM