well tax season is winding down and here’s an interesting side note

remember all that talk, and we mentioned it here the other day, about ‘filing on a post card’ and what that nonsense really means.

how they cut the 1040 down, printed half on the back, and shoved everything else onto schedules to make it look ‘simpler’.

because this new system is so much better, easier to understand and everybody instantly embraced it (///NOT!///) my software includes a new thing called a ‘Reconciliation Worksheet’

know what it is?

it’s the 2017 1040 form.

know why they did it?
so we can actually check if everything went where we thought and expected it was going, because the new format….

we havent gained any weight but we now have to wear a belt and suspenders where a year ago we didnt need either