Why do people dread doing their taxes?

They fear the unknown. Rite of passage into adulthood. That kind of thing.

It is not my favorite activity because I have to get all the information organized beforehand and that just takes time. Time I’d rather be spending elsewhere. And I’m super organized, so it’s not like I can’t find what I need, it just is a task that needs to be done and I’d rather not do it.

It is a reminder of how much we have to work to support various programs that we may not necessarily agree with. We have to file with an agency that is not even an arm of the government, and who, most of the time, refuses to even act human. Tax filing day is April 15th. Tax freedom day is sometime in early May. So at this juncture, we are not even through working for the government. Everything we have earned as of right now is still going to the government. Oh, just don’t even get me started never mind, I’m already wound up!

It is annoyingly complicated. It takes a lot of time. If you do it wrong you can get audited and have to justify every line like you are on trial. The IRS is not known for being warm and cuddly nor forgiving of those who are not accountants by nature.

Most people aren’t organized with their paperwork and don’t want to sit still with a form in front of them to fill out that tells them they have monies to mail in.

I love doing taxes, I look forward to it. Probably because we get thousands of dollars back every time, and I don’t mind filling out forms. i can’t be the only one

@casheroo – I’m getting back something in the mid-four figures…I still HATE doing my taxes, and postpone it until the 1st of April every year!

It’s terribly complicated for me. Then you have to mail them and track them and make sure they arrive. And the IRS isn’t known for forgiving mistakes. And, I mean, it’s scary. All of my savings end up going to the government it seems (not true, but it feels like it) and then I feel like I’m a failure at saving (not true, but it feels like it). Being an independent contractor blows.

First of all, you don’t pay taxes; they (IRS) take taxes.
And while no one likes doing it, we all need to remember what our taxes pay for: blowing people up.

I don’t mind doing my taxes, but I really don’t like getting the paperwork ready for my husband’s business. I have the “normal” paperwork together, then here he comes with a box of receipts that I have no idea he’s had stashed and the mess begins.

That is what I dislike! disorganization!

I don’t dread doing my taxes, in fact I just did mine and I’m getting back $250,000!

And people say you can’t do your own taxes. Hah!

I was doing Wanda. I was a regular. But she was going on vacation, and she said she had this great new girl for me: Taxes. She hoped that I’d do taxes, and be really, really happy.

So Wanda took off for parts unknown, and I did Taxes. Oh my god! Never was an escort so uninspired! She pretty much lay there like a dead fish. She even felt cold! Wow, I was hopping mad, and after it was over, I demanded a refund. She said I could have a refund if I could tell her the square root of pi. Aiyiyi! Too much math involved.

Then, after everything had been figured out, and she’d refunded me my refund (far too small, if you ask me), she had the nerve to ask when I was gonna do her again. The last thing I wanted, was to do Taxes again. Come next year, though, Wanda’ll be out of town again, and I’ll be stuck if I don’t do Taxes!

Maybe they don’t know how easy it really is with all the free information on the internet and great tax preparation programs like Turbo Tax.

For me it’s just a matter of having to enter in a year’s worth of credit card receipts into quickbooks because I have so many itemized deductions.

I think there would be something wrong with me if I didn’t dread playing the government its due so that I can be short on bills this month.