god dammit
Yeah, yeah, I know: it's better to have to pay a small amount/refunds are tax-free loans to uncle sam/there's always next yea*&@#I WANT FREE MONEY!!! And if I'm not getting any, why am I doing my taxes now, instead of at 11:45 pm on April 14?
This is the first year I haven't gotten a refund. New job, yes, but default withholding, I thought. I guess the addition of a 401(k) really fucked me over. It was not, presumably, the whopping $28 in dividends that the lingering shreds of my college mutual fund delivered.
I guess this means my dreams of HDTV ownership will once again be delayed. At least I've got that thirty dollar refund from D.C. That should cover, oh, about half of the cost of doing my taxes on H&R Block's website — something else that I've never had to pay for before.
Man. Doing my taxes used to be a lot more fun.
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turbotax.
also, did everyone in the universe get royally screwed by taxes this year? I know not of a single person who was pleased with this years outcome.
I'm cashing in this year. Thank you, higher education tax credits! Woo!
I guess this is why grown-ups always complain about them. In the past it's just meant an hour spent on the computer that then supplies booze money for the month. Crap. I guess I better start shopping for long term care insurance and find a nice funeral plot...
I owed even more than you, Tom, but I blame Ja/ke Dob/kin for my troubles.
Also, if you realize now that you might have made a small error which caused you to pay a little bit less taxes than you probably owed, but it's an understandable error and maybe even won't be noticed, should you do anything about it? Or just wait out the 4 year window and hope you're not audited?
I got a refund from the Feds but owe so much to New York State that I have to pay a "Substantial Underpayment Penalty". WTF?
Like Matt, I got a grotesquely large refund because of education tax credits, not one penny of which I ended up saving. But because I didn't know beforehand whether I'd end up in the red or black (I didn't even know I could use the education credits before I started), it was like a roller coaster ride of TAX TERROR, which ended with me not throwing up.