How did you do your taxes before calculators?

[Grampa Don]

For many years I did mine with one of these:



I'd do it first with paper and pencil, and then check it with the little adder. I don't know what ever happened to it, but I wish I still had it. I bought our first calculator about 1975, a basic four function that still works. I use a spreadsheet now, but still double check it with a calculator.

Don

 

[RadishRose]

 

[dpwspringer]

I used a slide ruler and a pencil and paper for the math. It was b#tch to go through all those rules, forms, etc and make heads and tails out of it. I basically used the previous years returns and instructions as a template... as much as possible. Now I just use tax software that walks me through it and don't worry too much about what it is doing or why.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Years ago the numbers involved were so small that I used a pencil and the back of an envelope.

When I started working I used an adding machine similar to this one and a ledger posting machine similar to the one below.

 

[exwisehe]

I did it the old fashioned way. Checked my math by "casting out nines". Remember that?

 

[NancyNGA]

 

[Falcon]

:lol1: Nancy

 

[Lon]

Until the availability of doing taxes on line with companies like TURBO TAX I used a CPA.

 

[Manatee]

I had so little money that it took about 10 minutes using pencil and paper.