Done!
I took my tax returns, sealed in their pretty manila envelopes, to the post office early today. Got those puppies in there at 4:51 PM, with plenty of time to spare.
And now I’m singing and dancing [hat tip: Powerline]:
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Congratulations, valued friend!
Now you get to do it all over again a year from now . . .
There are people who still mail their tax returns? e-file is 1) safer (your personal info passes through fewer hands, and a lot of these hands are minimally background checked temp employees) and 2) more accurate– fewer posting errors by said temp employees.
I win! I made it there about 4:50.
Mister Wilson:
I don’t trust electronic filing.
It’s the Luddite in me. I understand that it’s not necessarily safer to mail it. I like to work at a big table and spread everything out, which works better when doing it by hand. I can see the whole thing all at once when doing it by hand.
I also think if I do it by hand they’ll have more pity on me, because I look so pathetic.
Pity? Don’t get your hopes up Neo.
My liberal daughters each had a significant change in status last year; one taking a new position with a major increase in compensation, the other (whose compensation already would attract passing attention from redistributionists), going through a divorce which changed her filing status. I am hopeful that the tax shock will focus their attention on the cost of “big government”, as well as our ridiculous tax code. No, I am not holding my breath.
Yep, I sent mine off today as well. And since I was out of work for a few months – losing health insurance in the process – I had to pay that stupid Obamacare tax!
I am going to become something I never thought highly of – a single issue voter – repeal Obamacare now!
P.S. Neo, I also send in paper forms – all four of them: US Fed, state I work in, state I live in, form for state I live in to get credit for paying taxes to another state.
“That I and most Americans have no idea whether our tax returns are accurate ought to tell us something. ” — Donald Rumsfeld’s IRS Letter
Oldflyer:
The “pity” thing was a wan attempt at humor. I should have put a smiley face after it 🙂 .
I electronically filed my Federal taxes because it was free, but I mailed my State taxes because they wanted to charge me $24.99 to file electronically. That was over 1/3 of my total refund, so I opted to wait the extra time.
BTW, I have heard that there have been incidents of identity theft with electronic filings. Can’t verify that, but I’ve heard it.
Waidmann
Sweating to file by April 15th?
You’re an amateur!
Extensions are the way to go. Why rush things?
Julian T:
I got an extension once. Never again, if can help it.
I’m a natural procrastinator, and I don’t want that task hanging over my head! Now that I’m done, I’m having a happy day. Tra la la!
I bled out a few thousand last night over the Internet. As God is my witness, I’ll never do taxes by hand again! It’s SO much easier to use TaxAct. And all the crap I had to type in the first time is stored in their server, so the whole megillah only takes me an hour and a half.
I also broke down and finally got a Roth IRA. Today. At 5:15. At my bank. I must like skidding into the crash barrier at the last second….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umWGoO-OFgo#t=67
I had my refund back and spent by mid-February.
I knew you were kidding Neo. No rational person would expect pity, understanding, or any other human like emotion, from the government, much less the IRS.
I waited until late on the 15th to mail my return–once. Never again. I just like to get the monkey off my back, even if I owe.
I know that Turbo Tax has come under fire, but they have served me well over the years.
I like what you wrote in terms of the Yiddish words for a fool.
It dawned on me there must be one for the framework with Iran.
It is ironic that we voluntarily (well, semi-voluntarily) file Income Tax “Returns.”
Each of us is “returning” something to the government we all know and love so dearly. As if we had borrowed or taken something that was not ours, so was being “returned” to its rightful owner, our beloved, efficient, incorruptible and all-wise Federal government.
The use of the “Return” word is really quite clever.
The 16th Amendment, which allowed the Feds to tax income, was sold to the American people and their state legislators in exactly the same way the Alternative Minimum Tax was: that only a handful of really obscenely wealthy people would be taxed, out of fairness. Of course, the AMT hammers millions of people with too many dependents and too many deductions, grubby little middle class dolts that they are.
The 16th was adopted a hundred years ago, at the birth of the Progressive era, and we are now still regaled with the same Just Trust Us fictions by the 3rd generation Progs and RINOs.
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