income taxes 2007

Due to the complex nature of my taxes this year (sell a house in Ithaca, buy a house in Fort Collins, spend part of the year in NY, part of it in CO), I decided a long time ago I would hire an accountant to do my income taxes for 2007. I chose an accountant yesterday and had an appointment this morning. I had most of the stuff together already, but last night had to find a few folders.

Much to my embarrassment, upon going through my folders, it turns out my W2 for CSU is misplaced.** Further, I did my taxes with software in 2006, and I never made printouts. Bleah.

On the plus side, I asked the accountant which papers I could pitch, and there's a tidy little pile to be shredded. Less paper! Woo hoo! I also already found my tax files on my external disk drive and converted them to PDF and sent them on.

** A few of you already know the story of my missing W2 a few years back. I had left my taxes until the last minute (April 15!), but was confident because I had all the papers in the 200x tax folder. When I started entering the data into the software, I couldn't find my W2. Anywhere. I had to call Cornell payroll and go out to East Hill Plaza by bus to pick up a duplicate.

Yes, I did file on time.

And a year or so later I found the W2. It must have slipped off the bench (or Shindy, agent of entropy, shoved it) and was wedged behind the baseboard heater in my entry. I didn't think to look there -- that was the one and only paper to end up in such a place.