I had just gotten a nice system in place dealing with all my expenses and now I'm going to have to change it all again now So I am having to go through all this tax crap again, which is taking up my time, just to report almost nothing. Its stupid. But here we are I signed up with some software which is supposed to keep track of bank and credit card statements for you and do all the submissions basically automatically. Ultimately this system may actually be easier than what I'm doing now.. But just another project to get in the way of me doing Atari stuff for things which I should really be spending my time on
Even with my AI powered scripts, it took my mother and I, 2 full days. Doesn't sound much, but that's basically 4 days gone if I did it all myself minimum. Mix in all the quarterly work on top now.. It used to take 1-2 weeks because each time we added stuff up, it came out way different !
So my AI scripts helped add like 80% of it all up for us. So wasn't much left after that really. But still took a long time. We just got a nice simple system in place, and now it all needs to change again! Anyway, So things went as well as could be expected...
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Guess which bank I am with... It has been like that since 4 August and nobody has even reported the issue
so now I've reported it they replied pretty quick and said they will look into it and get back to me..I was somewhat reluctant to link things to my bank account but the alternative is doing what I am doing now and just downloading PDF statements one at a time each month and loading them into my scripts to extract the data and add it all up. Having the software just downloaded statements itself saves me some work already. Ultimately I think were all going to be forced into using this software anyway so what choice do we really have....
Currently there are some problems because I have to manually review what are personal and business transactions on evilbay. So last night I opened up a new eBay account just for personal transactions (see how long before I get banned this time!! ). I just have to remember to switch accounts now
so now all the expenses go on the business bank account and I don't have to manually filter out what is what anymore. The long term it should ultimately work out a lot easier to keep track of everything which is the intention of this system I think anyway. It's just a pain that I spent all the time creating scripts to help with all this only to basically start again with new software now.
