3.3.03 – fuck you very much, turbo tax

it seems that filing in three states was more than poor little turbo tax’s brain could handle, so i ended up having to do the damn returns by hand. which was better, in way, because i’m a control freak and i didn’t trust turbo tax to get it right unless i could see all the math, but i’m horrified to realize how many hours i’ve spent in the past week trying to get it all straight – filing as a part year resident in new york state and a part year resident in idaho, as a non-resident in massachusetts, and then requesting tax credits for all the income that was double taxed by more than one state. dear god. this stuff should be easy – i don’t even own anything – no stocks, no bonds, no property. with turbo tax’s interpretation i would have been well on my way to an audit. which wouldn’t really matter, given that my generalized fear of authority prevents me from cheating on my taxes, but it’d be a real pain in the ass. i mean, who the fuck writes this stuff?