On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:15:42 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 3/12/2013 7:55 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>> "Polly Esther" > wrote:
>>
>>> Today I had to sign a form at our accountants that I did NOT want to file
>>> electronically. We are not receiving a refund. Why would filing
>>> electronically benefit me?
>>
>> In NY you would avoid the fee for *not* filing electronically.
>>
>> I don't see it on their site now- so maybe it was just last year? I
>> use TurboTax and was going to mail mine last year and the software
>> warned me of the fee for filing by mail.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>Kind of ironic. Two agencies of the same government. The Post Office
>was founded on snail mail; the IRS wants to penalize you for using it. LOL
>
>Jill
The snail mail or lack of is not what is killing the Post Office. In
2006 after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and
Enhancement Act",(which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into
an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future,
a requirement unique among organizations and businesses in the U.S.

Gotta fund those subsidies for the oil companies and the billionaires
somehow.

Janet US