Doing Your Tax != Hard
// March 26th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Announcement
This is my second year doing my taxes now and I just finished all my taxes in about 20 minutes. There seems to be a spooky factor when people bring up tax season. I am trying to figure out what all the fuss is about? When doing your tax there are four places you have to file your tax with. These are:
- Federal tax
- State tax
- City tax
- Local School District
All of these tax forms I filed online! You only need two things handy to complete all of your taxes. Your W2, you get these from your employer (if you have a job) and finally your bank account and Routing number, this you can get from your bank.
If you run a business or make alot of money, unlike a poor graduate student (me) you might need to get your taxes professionally done.
For the federal tax can be done freely @ http://www.irs.gov/
For the state tax, just do a google search with you state’s name and append ‘tax’, for me the google search was “ohio tax” the first hit was the right place @ http://tax.ohio.gov/
The city tax was a bit weird, because it was not so obvious on where to file, but a quick google search turned up a place called the Regional Income Tax Agency aka RETA @ http://www.ritaohio.com/
The last tax to file is with the local school district, this can be filed at the same place where the state tax was file, so just follow the second link if you are an Ohio resident. Remember you don’t need to pay someone to file your taxes when you can do it yourself online and FREE! After about 30 minutes tops you are good to go and hopefully you’ll be getting money back like me 
