Last Minute Filers Beware!

If you remember, I recently posted (4/20) some outside reviews of tax software for folks who filed an extension for 2007.

Looks like you guys are the lucky ones.

Apparently lots of last-minute filers, who didn't file an extension, got caught up in an Intuit uh-oh. The full NYT article is here. The gist of it is, despite--they thought--overestimating the servers they would need to handle e-filing, Intuit's servers slowed to a crawl on April 17th, resulting in late filing for tons of people and a special arrangement with the IRS to let Intuit customers who were e-filing have a couple more days.

If I understand the article properly, a large part of the slowdown was tax professionals using Intuit's products for pros who were bulk filing lots of returns at the last minute.

Competitor H&R Block swooped in to offer people money to switch, and pointed out that they did NOT have any server problems on tax day.

If you did file an extension, you might want to think about getting to work on your taxes before October 15th--just in case.