Comments on: Students seek to ease tax stress http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/10/students-seek-to-ease-tax-stress/ Your 24-hour news source for Central Michigan University Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joe http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/10/students-seek-to-ease-tax-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-11073 joe Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:29:14 +0000 http://www.cm-life.com/?p=51961#comment-11073 WHAT! 50 BUX FOR A 1040EZ! What a rip-off, those take like ten minutes to fill out! WHAT! 50 BUX FOR A 1040EZ! What a rip-off, those take like ten minutes to fill out!

]]> By: D.D. http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/10/students-seek-to-ease-tax-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-11035 D.D. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:37:54 +0000 http://www.cm-life.com/?p=51961#comment-11035 H&R Block charges $39 for a 1040EZ or $49 for a dependant return, so how is $50 two to three times cheaper? Who is being deceptive and shall I say slandering here? Yes H&R Block will charge 2-3 times more than $50 often, but that is for a complex return that I would not want to trust to a college senior thank you very much. H&R Block charges $39 for a 1040EZ or $49 for a dependant return, so how is $50 two to three times cheaper? Who is being deceptive and shall I say slandering here? Yes H&R Block will charge 2-3 times more than $50 often, but that is for a complex return that I would not want to trust to a college senior thank you very much.

]]> By: Gary http://www.cm-life.com/2010/02/10/students-seek-to-ease-tax-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-11013 Gary Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:47:02 +0000 http://www.cm-life.com/?p=51961#comment-11013 I am likely the person you are referring to with the computer repair flyers hung around campus. I feel like the comment quoted by you in the article was slightly derogatory towards me and my business. The comment suggests that all I do is simply sit around, scan for spyware, and charge lots of money. In fact, I do spyware removal, but also any other number of complicated repairs. As far as my rates go, most repairs (as my flyer states) are billed for 1 hour. So the spyware/virus scans that take several hours are usually billed for only 1 and my rates are less than 1/4th the rates of other businesses in town. So while you and I are on a similar page as far as costing a fraction of the rates of other businesses, I have to bill 2.5 hours to reach your flat rate of $50. Most tax preparation takes less than 1 hour (especially students who almost always file a 1040EZ form). Now, I’m glad you were able to use some of the ideas deployed by me to help you out in your business. A service you should look into is Google Voice, a free service. Once you sign up, you can create your own local phone number and assign it to both you and your partner’s cell phones. When someone calls that number, it will ring both your phones. The first person who answers their cell phone will speak with the customer while the other phone simple stops ringing. I’ll go ahead and give that to you as a freebie, the next time I’ll have to bill you for 1 hour, $20 :) I am likely the person you are referring to with the computer repair flyers hung around campus. I feel like the comment quoted by you in the article was slightly derogatory towards me and my business. The comment suggests that all I do is simply sit around, scan for spyware, and charge lots of money. In fact, I do spyware removal, but also any other number of complicated repairs. As far as my rates go, most repairs (as my flyer states) are billed for 1 hour. So the spyware/virus scans that take several hours are usually billed for only 1 and my rates are less than 1/4th the rates of other businesses in town. So while you and I are on a similar page as far as costing a fraction of the rates of other businesses, I have to bill 2.5 hours to reach your flat rate of $50. Most tax preparation takes less than 1 hour (especially students who almost always file a 1040EZ form).

Now, I’m glad you were able to use some of the ideas deployed by me to help you out in your business. A service you should look into is Google Voice, a free service. Once you sign up, you can create your own local phone number and assign it to both you and your partner’s cell phones. When someone calls that number, it will ring both your phones. The first person who answers their cell phone will speak with the customer while the other phone simple stops ringing. I’ll go ahead and give that to you as a freebie, the next time I’ll have to bill you for 1 hour, $20 :)

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