Tax Form
It is my wish that you have not put yourself in the same boat as Randie… doing taxes on this late date. But as I hate the doing of taxes… not unlike Randie, I can’t hold it against anybody… not even myself.
It is my wish that you have not put yourself in the same boat as Randie… doing taxes on this late date. But as I hate the doing of taxes… not unlike Randie, I can’t hold it against anybody… not even myself.
I like to do them really early. That way, the rest of the year doesn’t seem so bad by comparison.
I always wait until a week or two before the deadline – that way they have hit most of their quota for audits already.
Hey, at least she’s doing them TODAY.
most people settle down to it on the 15th.
Got mine off on Saturday.
I did my taxes in January and already got my refund. State and federal.
Dave… I have to do part of my taxes in January because of owning a business. The city of Salinas likes you to report stuff.
Rich…. Really? Is that how that works? I’ve been inadvertently doing this for years.
Mary… It feels good to have them done, eh, Mary? Mine went out a few weeks ago. I have a helper… Thanks, Nelson!
Yat… It is nice to say “BOOM! Done!” … it really does. It is such a nice feeling when things GET done.
Did mine last night with a bottle… Now they are in and I feel like a squirrel has got into my brain an eaten all the wiring.
The worst part of doing taxes is the record keeping part. If you spend a little time creating the framework (I keep all my finances in Quicken) during the year, it’s all at your fingertips. I just run one report in Quicken, pull a couple of things from the file cabinet, and even with a schedule C it takes me 3 – 4 hours using Turbo Tax. I e-file and auto-deposit and have my money in a week or less!
z… a bottle of what? where is said squirrel now? I might double check your figures… to be on the safe side.
I’ve never been a legal citizen of any country, so this never became my problem (unrecorded birth, for those wondering). Incidentally, this is ALSO why I am now living abroad working as a virtually unpaid bodyguard! Moral of the story is do your taxes or get shot at, I guess?
Don’t complain about doing your taxes, at least someone cares enough to tax you……. and they don’t have a reason to chase you out and take just about everything you own.
You can always do a very special comic where Randie blows up the IRS. It could work!
Jenn… you are an international woman of mystery! Sheesh… I am picturing dark glasses, and massively pumped arms swizzling a martini… shaken and stirred.
Dada… A very SPECIAL comic where Randie gets audited… oh! OH! Knock on wood no LIA there!
Surely with her minute income Randi can use a 1040-EZ form.
We underpay our taxes because Uncle Sam doesn’t give interest on extra money they keep until the end of the year but spending that money on credit card balances saves us interest – so every year we end up writing a check. As a result, I am in no rush to get them done, I wait for my tax place to autoschedule me (usually in March) and even after filing I wait until April 15th to mail off the checks so I have as much time as possible to make sure the money’s there to cover them. 😀
Got mine into the mail yesterday. Unfortunately, I was unable to file electronically, as I have for so many years, because I donated a car to charity that earned more than $500 as a tax write-off, so I had to file a hard copy federal return so they could have an original 1098-C. Frikkin’ taxes . . . Owe the Feds an additional $500, but getting $1K back from the State (first $5K of military retirement pay is tax exempt in Maryland).
Michael… still involves math and following directions… something Randie isn’t always good at.
Grey… that’s strategy.
DC… sounds kinda complicated… so did I get this right…? You are sort of penalized for doing a good deed… donating a car… ? Sigh. Government, in any form, is just government…. bass ackwards.
Backwards government – tell me about it! some days I leave work feeling like my head and feet are pointing the other direction!
GreyWolf,
Agreed! There’s no point in making interest-free loans to people that make “Drunken Sailors’ look models of self-restraint.
(I was hoping that, before he died, Johnny Carson would have made one last appearance on the “Tonight Show,” at Federal Budget Time (remember when they used to actually PASS a Budget?) and apollogise to “Drunken Sailors” everywhere on behalf of the ENTIRE Comic Fraternity for disparaging them (the Drunken Sailors, that is) because “NO Sailor, no matter how Drunk, would ever even IMAGINE putting Tonight’s Bender on his Grandson’s Tab! THAT Folks takes a CONGRESSMAN!”