Taxes, one down, one to go…
I finished our joint taxes and only have my sister’s estate
taxes to go.
About 19 years ago my husband said, “I’ve done our taxes for
our first 20 years of marriage, now it is your turn for 20 years.” Tension enveloped in the house when he did
the taxes. I think it irritated him to
do them. Of course he didn’t have the
convenience of turbo-tax with their helpful questions and immediate
calculations. It was all paper, pencil
and calculators. I think I'll continue to do the taxes.
Last year with our taxes, my sister’s and the estate's,
I hired a tax consultant. I felt so
relieved to have the help and assumed everything would be done correctly. Signed the forms, paid the bills and put
everything away. Only to find out from
the IRS, my consultant had not entered the correct EIN number on the estate
taxes. We were assigned a new
number. With a little paper work, I was
able to straighten the number situation out.
I did contact the consultant about it and asked he write a letter. He said for me to “not get in a snit” because
he was busy. Oh well, I straightened it
out. Lost his phone number.
Anyway, one more morning with the computer and the estate
paperwork and I should be done with 2012’s taxes.
Love the lines "Oh well, I straightened it out. Lost his phone number." You have written a great anecdote about tax season! You don't walk alone.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed you've got your taxes done. We are still working on ours. I hope my husband doesn't give up his job of doing them. I tried a few years and ended up screaming at the tax forms.
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