I was talking to my old boss at the HVAC supply house last week and he said he still mails paper checks with actual stamps. Honestly I spent 3 hours last quarter messing with three different payment portals and still got a late fee anyway. Has anyone else just gone back to writing a check and dropping it in the mail?
Everyone says tracking miles is simple but I spent a full Saturday sorting through 9 months of delivery trips for my Etsy shop. I used the IRS standard rate and tried three different apps before giving up on all of them. Finally just pulled my Google Maps timeline and counted by hand which took another 2 hours. Total time was 6 hours for something people online claim takes 30 minutes. My calculation ended up being $847 in deductions but I'm not even sure that's right. Has anyone else found the real cost of tracking mileage is way more time than they advertise?
An accountant at a coffee shop in Austin told me I was using the wrong method for my car expenses. She showed me how the standard rate gives me way more back than I was claiming. Has anyone else found out they were doing mileage wrong?