After I got home today, I stopped by the mailbox on the way up to the tenth floor as usual. I noticed that the CIBC bank had sent the tax forms from my long-term GICs. The other envelope had my T-4 form from BCIT. So, I guess I'd call this tax season.
I don't mind doing my taxes. Well, if I stop to consider what a large percentage of my time is spent paying governments, I might be upset. The actual preparation, though, is not too bad. I've been doing my taxes using Intuit QuickTax for years. In fact I seem to stick with the standard version out of habit. We really don't have tough faxes. I'm sure I could almost do them with the online tax software that seems to be more and more prevalent nowadays. I do like how the CD-based version, sucks in the tax information from previous years. I'm not sure if saving a few minutes is worth the premium in price, but old habits die hard.Actually, Intuit made it even easier to continue this year. Back in January, I got a software CD in the mail. In order to activate today, I simply went to their website and bought a key for the standard version. As soon as my credit card purchase was verified, the key was on my screen. I copied it and it installed and updated automatically.
Doing the taxes is easy; thinking about how much the federal and provincial take from me during the year is not.