I need a flow chart

[redbird]

The tax forms are complex and the ordering isn't always obvious. Halfway through schedule SE (which actually comes with its own flow chart) I discovered that I had to fill out schedule C first. All this is input for form 1040.

Comments

[erik]

I tend to use a top-down model. I start the 1040 routine, and when it calls for infomation from another form, I execute that subroutine. If the subroutine needs info from another form, then that gets run, etc...

Who am I kidding? I use software. But when I did it on m\paper, that is the way I did it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I do that, too. It's the smart way to do it, I think.

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[mneme]

You too, eh? Yeah, I had to do the "1040->SSE->Sch C [with a long pause to find the @*#$#@ instructions for schedule C]" thing too. :(

[webbob.livejournal.com]

I find it works best to physically implement a stack. The 1040 gets pushed first, then whatever form the 1040 calls for gets done until it calls for another form, then the second form gets pushed, and so forth.

I found that doing my taxes manually was much faster than working with the H&R Block™ web page -- which latter does not work at all well with Macintoshes anyway, being merely least broken when accessed with Internet Exploder.

[redbird]

We're now at the tedious stage of copying numbers from form 1040 to NY state form IT-201. All this is in pursuit of filing the extension forms while we trac cattitude just pointed out that I'd managed to leave a large fraction of my income out in working out what we owed. So I fixed that, and he's now working on state numbers.

[avram]

I filled out Schedules C and SE before learning that I didn't have to.