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Subject:Re: Off topic - help with 1099 From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Tech-wrl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 May 2015 16:22:05 -0700
For something as simple as freelancing on a 1099 basis, if you hire an
accountant you're basically paying them a steep hourly rate to use
essentially the same software you can buy. My sister-in-law is an
accountant and enrolled agent, and for most people who have small
businesses she says use TurboTax.
What your accountant filed was presumably a 2210. TurboTax will file
that automatically if appropriate.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote:
> As with most things relating to accounting and taxes, if you try to "wing
> it" without help, you may well get it wrong. The "obvious" way to do
> something is often simply incorrect. One year I switched to quarterly filing
> with 1099 income, and was hit for failing to file in a previous quarter when
> I didn't have the quarterly income and didn't even know I was going to file
> quarterly at a later time. I never found out what triggered the "failure"
> notice, but my accountant fixed it, somehow.
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