Agave Mountain

I am finding it near impossible to carve time out of my schedule to do some coding.  I have been in administrative mode for the last two weeks, when I wasn't actively working for client #1 (who pays the bills and keeps the lights on). 

And I'm a little disappointed.  The only coding I accomplished last week was some unit testing code and some string parsing utility code.  The rest of the time I have been searching for, scanning, printing, and assembling papers for various government filings.

My wife has graciously volunteered to start doing the bookkeeping, especially after I offered to pay her to do it.  I think that will help me to refocus on my core skills to get things rolling again.

Thankfully, I have engaged the services of an accountant to prepare my new corporation's taxes, so I'm going to offload most of the tax return preparation.  But still, I have to cleanup the books, assemble the paperwork so he will just crunch the numbers and fill out the forms.

This year I will have to file:

• 1120S tax return for the corporation 
• Minnesota state tax return
• Georgia state tax return
• Schedule K (from the corporation to the shareholders)
• Personal 1040 Tax Return
• Delaware Franchise Tax Return
• Minnesota Withholding Returns

And I received a Connecticut tax notice (the bastards say I owe them $45 in penalties from 2005).  After a quick phone call, I decided just to pay it.

My economic stimulus tax refund check (if I get one) will probably be going to the CPA.

Posted by Joe Turner on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 12:18 AM | Permalink