Fast Returns
March 31st, 2008A six-week project finally complete, I successfully transmitted our income tax returns last night at 10:01 PM. Amazingly, less than an hour and a half later, at 11:22 PM, California’s Franchise Tax Board accepted the state return, and just a few hours after that (2:50 AM), the IRS accepted the federal return.
In all the years I’ve been filing returns electronically with TurboTax, I’ve not experienced that kind of fast response. Usually it takes several days of waiting to see what unknown issues may be lurking. Now it’s down to hours. At least the government is doing something right.
Of course, that same reduction in speed and increase of efficiency is used in the process of deciding who to audit — thanks to one of the largest databases in the world.