Organizing Your Tax Documents

Even though tax season has come and gone, it is never too early to begin thinking about next year. Many have probably already gotten their tax returns and will not even think about the entire filing process until next April.

For those procrastinators out there, you probably will not even be interested in reading this. But as a fellow procrastinator to another, it might be a good idea to skim over this article.

I can’t even begin to describe to you the amount of times that I have put off something because I can always “finish it tomorrow”. There is always another day to get something done, right?

Most of these times were during my high school and college years. Pulling an all night study session or staying up for 24 straight hours to finish a research paper is quite common among college students.

Some of us even try to use the phrase that we “work better under pressure” and that is why we wait so long before we attempt to start writing our paper. It is like our brains are shut off Kamagra Gold until the last possible moment until we absolutely have to start writing.

Did we not learn as early as elementary school that there is a process to writing? How did it go again?

There are about five different stages when writing a paper. First you need to brainstorm and put all of your ideas onto a piece of paper.

Then you take all of those ideas and write a rough draft. Forget all the spelling and grammatical mistakes, just let your pen flow freely until you have a good start.

After you finish your rough draft, then you can go back through to look for mistakes. They always tell you to have at least two or three other people read it so they can give you some feedback.

Revise all of your ideas so that they are organized in a logical manner and prescription cialis online make sense. Make sure you know who you are writing to and that your ideas come through clearly in the paper.

Then rewrite your paper with all those first mistakes fixed. Edit your second draft for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors and do not forget to get some feedback from other people (preferably someone new who has not yet had the chance to read it).

After you have gone through these first four stages, make it ready to publish. Figure out a way to bind it and look interesting enough that someone would want to read it.

Let’s be honest, how many high school and college students go through this process for every paper they write? Even though it is a proven process and we know that it works very well, the procrastinator in us does not care.

We just want to write a paper once, maybe glance over it for mistakes and get rid of it by turning it in. Then we are done with it once and for all and can forget that horrible experience.

Now, filing and organizing your taxes will not follow these five steps. But if we set up a process that will work like this one, it might make it just a little easier come next April.

Get yourself a file box with a few different file folders in it. Label these files with names such as; W-2, pay stubs, previous tax returns, receipts, bank statements, etc.

If you commit to filing these documents that same day you receive them all year long, it will save you a bunch of time in the end and you will not be wondering where to look for them next year. Save anything that you might need to file your taxes next year.

Something else that might help is if you organize each individual folder can you buy cialis without a prescription by dates. Keeping these papers in order from the beginning will save you from shuffling through all of them later.

Now even though taxes aren’t due until April 15, does not mean that you should start filing April 14. Give yourself a month or so head start by setting a goal to have it all done by March 15.

Following these simple steps will not only speed up the tax filing process for you, but will also keep you organized the entire year. Now aren’t you excited for next April?

Author Bio: Jack R. Landry has worked since 1988 as a tax attorney. He has written hundreds of articles about finding a Bakersfield tax attorney.

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Jack R. Landry
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