Dump out any food crumbs from your toaster or toaster oven.

By now, you have likely filed your taxes, or you're getting ready to do so. The tax deadline this year is Monday, April 18th, by the way.

How much stress did it cause to pull all of the information together? Were papers scattered here and there in drawers or on the computer? Did you worry you forgot something?

If you want to make the process easier next year, start organizing it now. You will thank yourself next year.

We use this simple system, but it is only a suggestion. Modify it to make it work for you.

1) Past Tax Years: We keep one banker box for each year, for the past 7 years, in one of our basement closets. They're lined up on shelves, in order by year. Every year, we shred everything in the oldest box and discard that paperwork.

2) Current Taxes: We have a drawer in our filing cabinet for files needed for our current taxes, such as medical bills, utilities, charitable contributions, and the like. Each file folder is labeled and we file papers in them daily, throughout the year.

3) Online Accounts: Since we bring our tax documents to our accountant, we print anything she needs from our online accounts. These are also added to the appropriate file folders.

4) Daily Record Keeping: We keep very good track of our income and expenses using computer software. We like Quicken, but there are many programs available. Every single evening, 365 days a year, we input any income or expenses. This makes life easier for us and our accountant.

5) Ready for our Accountant: When it's tax time, we print any Quicken reports we need, grab our file folders, and pay a visit to our accountant with everything in hand.

6) The Day After Taxes Are Done: When our taxes are done, we remove the papers from our file folders and transfer them, categorized, to large (and labeled) envelopes. Those envelopes are then placed in a banker box, labeled with the current year.

That's it. By the way, we haven't purchased a new banker box in years. We just keep reusing the oldest one once it's empty.

By using this system, or something similar, next year you should have just about everything conveniently filed where you can access it to do it yourself or give it to your tax preparer. You can look at last year's preparation as a guide to ensure you have everything.

Enjoy a simpler tax season.

P.S. Looking for a simple and effective way to get control of your paper chaos? You're going to love My Oh-So-Organized Filing System!

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