Connecticut (CT) State Tax e-Filing Prices Simplified

Driving you crazy that you can file your federal taxes for free online or even as the H&R Block Commercial says FREE but when you walk in they want to charge you? Or when you get to the end of the online software they want to charge you? Federal may be free but the hook is they may charge a fee for your state tax return. According to the http://www.ct.gov/drs/cwp/view.asp?a=1433&q=265866#FilingfromHome(On-LineFiling) website below are all the approved sites for online filing. I have made life easier by listing the prices from least expensive to most expensive. I will tell you that TaxSimple is not user friendly and has a very out dated and not modern program. It’s one step up from DOS. Hope this helps lovies :*

CT DRS Website https://drsindtax.ct.gov/AUT/SessionTimeout.aspx FREE

TaxSimple if qualify FREE otherwise $24.95+ tax

OnLine Tax $7.95+ tax

Free Tax $9.95+ tax

ezTaxReturn $9.95+ tax

One Price Taxes $9.95-$14.95+ tax

Tax Act $14.95+ tax

Tax Slayer $17.90+ tax

ESmart Tax $19.99+ Tax

1040return.com $24.95+ tax

H&R Block $27.95+ tax

Turbo Tax $27.95+ tax

1040.com $29.95+ tax

Tax Brain $29.95+ tax

Complete Tax $29.95+ tax

Jackson Hewitt $29.95+ tax

eFile 411 $29.95+ tax

All Seasons Tax $29.95+ tax

Taxsoftware State?

THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OR RECOMMENDATION NOR IS IT LEGAL, TAX, OR FINANCIAL ADVISE

A lot to catch up on

My feeling on the economy you ask? Well, since getting laid off in March of 2009 1 year after buying our first home and finding out shortly after we were pregnant with our second child life has been challenging to say the least. That fall my husband also ended up unemployed. 6 months pregnant the only job I could find was Part-time making less than half the hourly rate I was earning 8 months earlier and half the hours. The position had no stress and was with a great boss at a great company so it would help with the gap on my resume. I was finishing my MBA and had a 2 year old. When the baby was born I took the bare minimum 6 week leave of absence unpaid. Our 3 month emergency fund had been long gone and bill payments fell behind. Now that the baby was born and I had been in the position for a while I was offered full time work which I happily accepted but the pay was still less then half what I made the year before. Daycare was costing me almost my entire check and my husband out of desperation took a sales job as a door to door insurance salesman and was not getting anywhere. So, it was time for me to look for better pay. Which is how I ended up at a large company also in sales and they only took on high net worth clients so I was spending too much to try and make it and I was already behind. My boss at this job was AWFUL and made me physically sick to go to work everyday. Of course I wasn’t able to hit my hurdles so had to find a more permanent well paying job. Which brings me to where I am today. However, I want it to be permanent but was hired because one of the employees is pregnant and very close to her due date and the other is getting married. They have worked together for more than 5 years and we all know how girls are so they don’t like me. Our boss has counted on them for all these years and I am the newbie so am feeling like a temp. I just want to plant my feet in the ground somewhere. I love the work I do and helping people and solving problems. I’m a mom so naturally I want to be home with my kids but can’t afford to so just want to be treated with respect and make enough money to catch up and pay my bills. We are loosing our home face shut off notices and the the other crap many others are facing. I went to college so I could get a good job and my family would never have to worry about lack of heat, electric, food, and housing. Now my student loan debt is killing me, I make less then I was 2 years ago pay 2x as much for daycare and 3x as much for gas and milk… I can’t even say I live check by check. It’s more like check by 3 check or more. I am part of the 99% and it really sucks… I hope that the next President can find a way to bring more jobs, better pay, and some equality. I just want my old normal life back and not have to worry so much.

Realizations

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I know that a key to success is positive energy and creating a good aura but today that was impossible for me. The negative energy around me made that impossible. If you’re wondering why I use envykarma well in all honesty I had a cat named Envy because my favorite color is green and green is not a cool name so thought it through to envy. You guessed it… I also had a cat named Karma. Over time my thought of the words combined are kind of true. I envy other people’s karma or chi. I know that envy is a sin but I can’t help it. The reason I want to write a book someday (actually have it written for me because I can’t write) is because if something can go wrong it does for me. I am the definition of Murphy’s Law. From the beginning of time I have had the world’s worst luck to the point of humor and great drama. I think I may have done something really bad in my past life and it’s catching up with me now.

I am realizing why I have a lot of artist friends and have always fit in with musicians, painters, designers, theater professionals… I have a great respect for them because it is not easy. I am very creative but not in the traditional sense. I can not sing, dance, write, paint… But I get visions and ideas then I run with them. It’s like a writer gets a thought and writes, a musician gets a vision and plays, or a painter dreams something and paints it. I am in color while the people I am surrounded by are in black and white.

Now that I have learned this about myself it’s time to address it. Do I change (conform), stay the same and toughen up, or do I stay me and move on? It’s not easy being different and I find myself embarrassed and hurt because of it. Which is very hard because not only don’t I fit in for the way I think and act but I am also of a different gender and age from those around me.

Today my creativity was matched against red tape, office politics, and hypocrites. Then hammered over and over again to make a point. Fun stuff. Head held high and hoping tomorrow will be a better day.

Thanks for reading

Stay tuned…

 

Sunday Ramble

Normally I love Sundays. They are my favorite day of the week. As a family we hit the park or something else fun after picking up our morning Lg D&D. Which is a must on a daily basis for this mom to function. But today is different. I am exhausted having stayed up late for my alone time because the boys were awful about going to bed. Z woke up at 5 am… And it was dad’s day to sleep in. Tomorrow I have to be up at 4am to make it to Boston for 9am and I am the worlds worst morning person. Well, ok not the worst but pretty bad! Oh and tonight is the season premier of my favorite show… True Blood. To stay up or not to stay up? This week is going to be crazy. I have lots of travel in the tristate area and a test on Thursday. Then have family coming into town for the holiday weekend and that should make for good blogging. Always fun times when Sarah’s in town and she’s bringing Jessie. Oh boy. Stay tuned. Oh and almost forgot… Have a dinner guest coming to have an important chat with me tonight. Intense. Thank goodness hubby let me have a nap!

The world as Chelley sees it…

I am the only Michelle Tolmoff in the WORLD and my dream is to be on a Billboard in Times Square.

Someday I will write a book and it will be a best seller.