Monday, February 25, 2008
The taxman cometh
I'll admit it. I love doing my taxes. Maybe it's the bureaucrat in me, but I love filling out all the paperwork and looking things up in tables and figuring stuff out. I used to do it all by hand, but now I use a tax software program and it's so much fun! In fact, last year I did my taxes so early that the IRS told me that I had to wait a few more days before filing because they weren't ready yet. One year the IRS wrote me a letter saying that my figuring was wrong and that my return was actually $10 less than I thought. I called them up and made them redo their math while I was on the phone. Yes, I was right. They very politely apologized and sent me a check for $10. How can you not love that?
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I loved it more when I used to get a refund instead of a big IOU to the IRS.
Which is silly, really. Better them to loan me interest free than me to loan them, no?
CW -- yes, all the financial gurus say that it's better to pay than to get a refund because you don't want to give Uncle Sam an interest free loan. Of course, I'm waiting for the day when I actually make enough money to pay taxes!
I adore you. Seriously.
B -- you adore me? This from the queen of blogs, so I'm very honored. Thank you.
So here's an interesting tax fact, or story rather: While Orin Hatch (R-Utah) was campaigning for his last election, he held a "come ask me questions" dinner. At the dinner he said that amongst the senate and congress it's a known fact that you can take your tax stuff to three different tax preparers and get three different numbers. Such efficiency, wouldn't you say? Besides that, when you call the IRS, you get an out-sourced individual from India. I wonder what their tax code is like?
RAPIDRUNNER -- I don't know who comes up with these tax rules (it's not you, is it?), but they make no sense. What ever happened to Steve Forbes' idea of the postcard sized tax form?
The IRS apologized to you?
I didn't know that was possible!
GEO -- oh, I don't let the T-men get me down. No siree!
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