[PLUG] A challenge...

[Tim]

I still complete my taxes using a stone and chisel

Tim

Ali Corbin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:
>   
>> FWIW, I used a pencil and occasionally added and subtracted and
>> multiplied using my preferred calculator, GNU CLISP. �When I had
>> pencilled everything in, I filled in the forms with the fillable PDF's
>> provided by the various taxing agencies.
>>
>>     
> So long as we're flaunting our ludditeness,  I also use a pencil and paper.
> But I do the addition and subtraction on an abacus (quicker than a calculator)
> and check it in my head with the rule of nines.
>
> Once, years ago, I tried using a web-based tax service, one in which you just
> answered questions and it did all of the computations for you.  But the answer
> that it came up with was obviously wrong (ie, much different from the taxes
> that I'd paid the previous year).  And it wouldn't show me what it had
> filled out
> in the schedules so I couldn't tell where the problem was.  So I went back to
> pencil and paper.
>
> Ali
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