<p>My daughter owes taxes. We have efiled and are going to mail a check with a payment voucher. Do we have to mail a copy of the return with the voucher as well? Or just the voucher and check?</p>
<p>I am growing frustrated with struggling through this tax software!!</p>
<p>I have been told just to send voucher and check. I think it would be unnecessary to send a copy of the return, as they want the efile formats not paper. Generally they match up payments, although we both know they make many mistakes. Write SSI on check too, and tax year.</p>
<p>Just the voucher and check. The definitely don’t want the return copy. Yes, write the SSN, name, and year/form (2009 Form 1040) on the check.</p>
<p>Thank you both. I had finally stopped being lazy (hey CC always gets me a quicker answer) and looked at the IRS web site and your advice is spot on.</p>
<p>I used H&R block software this year to save $20 and have found it less than intuitive, to put it politely.</p>
<p>The Turbo Tax software seems intuitive to me. D, who did her taxes by herself for the first time, thought so also. Haven’t tried the HR Block tax software.</p>
<p>I’ve used the H&R Block tax software for the last 10 or 11 years; until this year it was called Tax Cut. It seems pretty intuitive to me – you just answer the questions and fill in the information, and it does all the calculations for you. I just spent the last few hours doing my federal, NY and NJ returns from start to finish, and e-filed all of them. Once the federal return was done, the two state returns took only about 10 or 15 minutes each. (Of course, that doesn’t count the many hours I spent gathering all the information before I began. They haven’t invented a program yet that will do that!)</p>
<p>I guess the one benefit of all my travails last year is that I had close to $25,000 in unreimbursed medical expenses for the year, and for the first time in my life exceeded the 7.5% threshold for deducting medical expenses for federal tax purposes. I knew that some good had to come out of all that!</p>
<p>I wish my father would learn how to use a computer to do this kind of thing, but he refuses, and still figures it all out on paper, with a calculator. Even though he’s 90 years old as of today, which is his birthday. Of course, he has been a tax lawyer since he graduated from law school in 1948, but still, you’d think he’d want to make his life a little easier!</p>