Emotional, Taxing Time of Year

April 4, 2005

Tax time in the USA is here. If you’ve already done your taxes, kudos to you. If not, you need to file by midnight, April 15 for federal income taxes. As we say, try EFT on everything, including doing your taxes. EFT can be superb at tax time because the government, taxes and money can red flag all kinds of emotional issues. Use EFT to make your time in April less taxing, more enjoyable and hopefully refundable.

First, a couple of key questions. If you haven’t done your taxes yet, what’s holding you back from doing them? What feelings do you associate with tax time? What thoughts or images come to mind?

Use your own EFT setup statement or try one of these to get started. Then pay attention to whatever comes up and tap.

Even though I put off doing my taxes …
Even though I’d rather do something other than taxes …
Even though I really don’t want to do my taxes …
Even though I don’t feel motivated to do my taxes …
Even though I can’t stand doing taxes …
Even though I dislike paying the government money …
Even though I dislike paying taxes for programs I don’t agree with …
Even though I resent doing my taxes …
Even though I feel depressed doing taxes …
Even though I feel stressed doing taxes …
Even though I get uptight doing taxes …
Even though when I think of doing my taxes I get anxious …
Even though I’m afraid I’ll miss getting all of my deductions …
Even though I’m disorganized about my taxes …

… I deeply and completely accept myself.
… I choose to do them in a surprisingly fast and easy way.

Be creative and use EFT to help you get through tax time. Here’s some other information that may be of value to you. The easiest place to get tax forms is at your local post office. You can also get tax forms online, by fax or mail.

The Internal Revenue Service offers an alliance with commercial tax service firms where you can file your federal income taxes online for free. If you want to do your taxes on your computer, read this quick review of tax software programs.

For other tax help, go to Yahoo! Finance Tax Center and TaxMama. Here are two tax deduction finders. One is from Quicken Turbotax. The other is from Microsoft MoneyCentral.

If after all this, you still procrastinate or need more time, there’s another solution. File an extension by filing form 4868 to get an automatic four month extension to file.

Let me end with Jeffrey L. Yablon who periodically publishes quotations on taxes. He said,