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Looking for suggestion on tax prep data entry

#1

Earlier this month, just finished 2011 taxes (yes, 2011).

Use Turbotax & always have had a lot of W2Gs to post so I wait till the
local IRS office gets their run (around July) & then ask them to run what
they have in their computer. Then match all those up to what I have just in
case I lost one or some casino reports something that I didn't know about.

Anyway, posting all that in Turbotax is tedious so created a spreadsheet
with the casinos that I frequent & info that normally appears, namely, name,
address, etc., tax ID #. Then I copy & paste which is the fastest way
I've found so far. Even doing it this way it still takes quite a bit of time.

Has anybody been able to do this more efficiently?

I wish Turbotax had a ditto feature so that info could be copied from the
previous entry. Anybody know how to do that?

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#2

The best I've been able to come up with is to enter the info in Notepad, and then copy & paste into H&R Block, which is the program I use.

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I wish Turbotax had a ditto feature so that info could be copied from the
previous entry. Anybody know how to do that?

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#3

I'm pretty sure all that information you are typing in tediously isn't even
sent to the IRS. I just put the total under "other gambling income" and have
never had a problem.

Cogno

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Subject: [vpFREE] Looking for suggestion on tax prep data entry

Earlier this month, just finished 2011 taxes (yes, 2011).

Use Turbotax & always have had a lot of W2Gs to post so I wait till the
local IRS office gets their run (around July) & then ask them to run what
they have in their computer. Then match all those up to what I have just in
case I lost one or some casino reports something that I didn't know about.

Anyway, posting all that in Turbotax is tedious so created a spreadsheet
with the casinos that I frequent & info that normally appears, namely,
name, address, etc., tax ID #. Then I copy & paste which is the fastest
way I've found so far. Even doing it this way it still takes quite a bit of
time.

Has anybody been able to do this more efficiently?

I wish Turbotax had a ditto feature so that info could be copied from the
previous entry. Anybody know how to do that?

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#4

All the IRS is interested in is the total dollar amount of W2Gs matches their figure. If you miss one you can be pretty sure you will hear from the IRS. There are high limit players in Las Vegas that hundreds and hundreds of W2G's. The IRS doesn't expect you to enter each one individually. The computers just compare the total. Turbotax which I have used for years is dumb software program. It is designed for the casual gambler who has one or two W2G's a year.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@... wrote:

Earlier this month, just finished 2011 taxes (yes, 2011).

Use Turbotax & always have had a lot of W2Gs to post so I wait till the
local IRS office gets their run (around July) & then ask them to run what
they have in their computer. Then match all those up to what I have just in
case I lost one or some casino reports something that I didn't know about.

Anyway, posting all that in Turbotax is tedious so created a spreadsheet
with the casinos that I frequent & info that normally appears, namely, name,
address, etc., tax ID #. Then I copy & paste which is the fastest way
I've found so far. Even doing it this way it still takes quite a bit of time.

Has anybody been able to do this more efficiently?

I wish Turbotax had a ditto feature so that info could be copied from the
previous entry. Anybody know how to do that?

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