I got no big plans for the upcoming week. Nothing special I need to do. No papers to collect. No forms to fill out. You know, no long involved problems with nagging government agencies.
It was so humorous, at work, listening to everyone talk about their plans. None of them are going to see the Cherry Blossoms (warning: Big JPG file), or to movies, or anything like that. They are all going to be doing their tax forms! Me, I got mine done on February the third. Got my refund in five days. Called them up and asked for an audit. They said no thanks.
I think I will go to the races this week. Bet on a horse named “file early” or some such.
Yeah, taxes. Been there, done that, no worries this week. gloat gloat
My wife would kill me if I didn’t point out that she was the one with the mad organizational skillz who got us filing early. If it had been left up to me, I’d have started thinking about it on the 12th or so.
I can’t really gloat, because it wasn’t as if it took any effort. Just dropped off the W2 at H&R Block and mailed in the state return a few weeks later.
I wish I could say that, but going to H&R Block actually turned out to be more trouble than doing it myself. After six years in the same job, I know how to do my taxes pretty well. But the schmoes @ H&R couldn’t figure out how to work their computers, turning a 15 minute task into an hour of frustration that ended with me having to go home, only to get a call saying that they figured out why my IRA wasn’t showing up on the form would you please come back. So I go back, spend another 15 minutes to learn that I owe the IRS almost exactly what I thought I would (really, I was only off by $5) and then PAYING them for their help. Then they toss me a 30-minute phone card to make up for my troubles. This was the first time I was ever glad to get an online follow-up survey from a company.
Our taxes were filed in late February, and we got our refund in March. Remember that thread on Dyson vacuum cleaners? That was when we got our money back. Additionally, Uncle Sam sent us a check for $1.00 of overpayment!
February? What took you so long? I had mine done in January. Got the refund a few weeks later, spent most of it on bills and stuck a few hundred in savings.
We get our W2’s with our first paycheck of the year. I’d have done them even sooner than the third week of January if I hadn’t had to run all over looking for the tax forms. They don’t send me them anymore since I had them done by HR Block the past two years and I didn’t have a printer to download them from the internet.
I don’t get the wait and then mad rush to get them done by April 15th unless you actually owe money. If you’re due a refund why procrastinate?
I would have gotten them done in February. I wanted to get them done in February. Then I wouldn’t have had to worry about money for the wedding in June, I could have made all the plans and paid all the deposits and been a happy, pappy, little bird. But Noooooo. Bird Man’s old employer had other plans. We didn’t get his tax info from them until two weeks ago. Bastards. :mad:
We’re done…just holding off on mailing the check. I don’t like those rat bastids to have my money any longer than absolutely necessary.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind paying taxes, but when I read things like how they’re sending thousands of dollars to one-horse towns in Tennessee for homeland security, I figure the longer they have to decide how to spend it, the better off we all are.
After I got interviewed on TV last year for being in the throng of people at the post office on April 15th at like 10PM, there’s no way I’d give up another chance at 15 minutes of fame by getting them done ahead of deadline.
