Mark Carroll's Journal

I really look forward to having simpler taxes again in a couple of years' time. This year I'm again filing horribly many interacting forms of the kind that tend to expose bugs in the automated systems and that would cost me many thousands of dollars to have a professional do and, goodness knows, just about every professional I engage for anything makes careless mistakes if I don't check all the detail myself anyway. Right now I'm into yet another twisty maze of worksheets. (Filing form 2555 is a surefire way to be switched into okay, now you get to do it the complicated way.)