Organizing For Taxes - For the Unorganized

My taxes are a large number, or rather doing them is. I run a small business to make it even worse, am I'm semi organized at best. These days found me with a massive pile or receipts for simply concerning everything that required to be organized and tallied and more.
I start by creating 12 piles, one for each month, plus 3 additional piles for health care, credit card statements, and miscellaneous. Then I am going through each monthly pile, one at a time, and write the number of every receipt into a spiral sure notebook, one page for every month. Since I have no staff, this works out very well joined page is enough. Now simply making the piles and researching them to write down the information simply takes over a day.
Next I tackle the mastercard statements, wanting though for tax deductible business expenses I've missed. There are always a lot, and embrace everything that's regularly billed or delivered online. These also get written down into the notebook. I follow this by browsing my one checkbook that I exploit for both business and private expenses for additional missing information, and this sometimes includes kid care, donations, and office rent.
Tallying up the mileage I drove for business is always challenging. I have a smaller notebook for this, about 4 by vi inches, and attempt to write down the mileage from each business trip down a minimum of weekly, but I very miss a lot. Fortunately my calendar contains all my conferences, conferences, and similar events and their locations therefore it's pretty easy to get all the business trips down and add up all the mileage.
Adding up all my business expenses is additional troublesome as I've got completely different classes that do generally vary by year. I verify the overall categories like office supplies, Web services, food and entertainment, and capital equipment, and opt for a form for each. Month by month I use the appropriate form to circle/box/star/trapezoid/etc. each of the expenses. This is often created somewhat easier since I tend to cluster similar expenses together in the notebook. As an example I perpetually place food near the underside of the page. I add each category by quarter, so for each category I've got 4 numbers, one per quarter. I double check these, meaning re-add them, and if they're off by a buck or less I do not worry concerning it.

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