Tis the season and the Sheridan Public Library will have a limited supply of state and federal tax forms available this year. Filing starts on Jan. 29 this year, but often times the federal and state forms are sent out late – mid-February or later in many instances.
Library director Steve Martin notes that tax officials do not send out as many copies of all the different tax forms as they used to, and maybe that is a good thing. There are so many different types of forms anymore, and in the old days, at the end of tax season on April 15, most of the odd forms were just trashed. By not sending so many different types of forms, it cuts down on wasting your tax dollars.
Martin also notes that these days all the different tax forms and their instructions are available online for easy downloading and printing. A lot of people file electronically and have no need for the paper forms anymore.
Martin reiterates that the library will have the basic tax forms but will help you download and print any tax form and its instructions for 10 cents per page. So if you need paper copies of any tax forms, try the library. It should have them by mid-February. And as Martin says, “What we don’t have in stock, we can get off the internet in a matter of seconds.”
The Sheridan Public Library is located at 103 West First Street in beautiful uptown Sheridan, just on the country side of Hamilton County. It is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. It is closed on Sunday.