So I just spent and hour and a half at the tax place... again. The poor preparer probably hates me. Having a house in two states, having pay from two states, having both regular and active duty military, plus a host of other weirdness, does not bode well for ease in preparing our taxes. Last time I left, we owed 981 bucks to federal... I almost flipped. We were getting back a whopping 300 bucks total from the two states. Since our taxes have been screwy since we married, I knew that couldn't be right. Being a DINK family is also a bad thing. I asked if I could claim my Westie's as a deduction, b/c let's face it... I spend as much on them as I would children. The lady told me that she'd try it if I could figure out a way to get them a SS #... hmmm, Idea for next year??
Anywho, after trying everything (can I claim my last colonoscopy as a work related expense??? bwahahaha) under the sun, we finally figured out that we were being double taxed on the 25 K from the military. Once we got that fixed... voila! Refund. Almost 2000. Makes me mad, b/c I hate the gov't holding onto my money... then again, since it goes straight in the IVF fund, it was probably best to let them hold onto it. I enjoy spending. 'Nuff said!
Oh yeah, back to my origional reason for this rambling blog... it cost me 280 bucks to get it prepared. GEESH! It was 350 before I received the military discount. WTF? Highway robbery.
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Turbo tax. Seriously. You can do it. Seriously. Make a note for next year and save your self some cheddar.
Vanessa, I found your blog somehow. I was so excited to see you have a blog. I just started one about a month ago. I hope to keep in touch with you better this way! I was just thinking that I haven't heard from you in forever. We need to go shopping or lunch/dinner again soon! CALL ME!!! I miss you!!!
I hate going to the tax people. We had to go back 3 times before ours were done. We had to go to see a specialist as well because we opened (and unfortunately closed) a business last year and we didn't want to mess up by doing it ourselves.
At least you have it done and didn't wait until April 15th to show up at the tax place!
And oh, we asked about claiming our furbabies as well. And our tax preparer said the same thing! Get them a SSN and we could claim them!
Freyja.. will you do them for me? Pretty please:)
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