the project of trying to get economical access to tax software in order to do a trivial partnership tax return has been kind of wow nightmarish. turbotax business desktop would do it for $190, but i don’t have windows. online it’s $700+. taxact is economical online, but i’m unhappy with it. azure won’t let me spawn a windows cloud PC without affirming i have some kind of license. windows365 is $40.50 a month, and wants an annual commitment. parallels would be a $70 upgrade + Windows 11 $139. 1/

windows 365 has a one-month free trial, so I’ll do that for this year. but the overlap of two consolidated, crappy, markets — tax software, and MS’ restrictive Windows OS licensing in the cloud — has made this all stupidly expensive and hard.

partnership returns are new to me, so i have no examples, am afraid to just wing it despite very simple accounts. i suspect next year i will just end up filling out the IRS’ PDF forms, using this year as an example, and sending them in by mail. /fin