In this age all stories seem to bring me back to Comrade 45 and in this case we know how he has evaded taxes - actually he is the epitome of a tax cheat! In the real world where most of us make sure we comply and meet the 4/15 deadline as it is our duty. I am happy a civil servant was able to assist and resolve your issue, government haters be damned! Now Speaker McTrump shall ‘lead’ the nation off the cliff by defaulting on our debt!
I made a mistake on my taxes once and was horrified. Intake this stuff all too seriously so when the error wasn’t mine — and I didn’t have to fight about it — I was so relieved.
This year was my son's first year paying income tax. Since for him it's strictly about his paychecks, an EZ was just fine. And before I started out with him I told him, "Piece of cake, fifteen minutes"-- because I forgot what it's like doing taxes when you start up, and don't automatically figure that if you don't know what something is, it's irrelevant to you, but feel very much in peril of prison.
It still didn't take us that long. Chun Woo feels much better now.
Underfunding IRS employment is of course a long-run concern that results in undermonitoring and under enforcement of the returns and payments of those with the deepest pockets and longest-winded lawyers, and in taxpayers having a very hard time getting IRS help.
It hadn't occurred to me to wonder how that's going on a secretary-of-state-by-state level. Sounds like Connecticut and Colorado rock, but I wonder about, say Arkansas....
Wonder about Texas and Missouri and Oklahoma too. I often am reminded that though CT has its challenges (some big ones), the state at least does this kind of thing properly.
In this age all stories seem to bring me back to Comrade 45 and in this case we know how he has evaded taxes - actually he is the epitome of a tax cheat! In the real world where most of us make sure we comply and meet the 4/15 deadline as it is our duty. I am happy a civil servant was able to assist and resolve your issue, government haters be damned! Now Speaker McTrump shall ‘lead’ the nation off the cliff by defaulting on our debt!
I made a mistake on my taxes once and was horrified. Intake this stuff all too seriously so when the error wasn’t mine — and I didn’t have to fight about it — I was so relieved.
Amen
This year was my son's first year paying income tax. Since for him it's strictly about his paychecks, an EZ was just fine. And before I started out with him I told him, "Piece of cake, fifteen minutes"-- because I forgot what it's like doing taxes when you start up, and don't automatically figure that if you don't know what something is, it's irrelevant to you, but feel very much in peril of prison.
It still didn't take us that long. Chun Woo feels much better now.
Welcome to the neighborhood!
What a morning for juxtaposition! You scrupulously did all the record keeping, honestly reported, and found a competent, decent public servant in the government to help you. Then there's this addition to a long list of Thomas's counterexamples: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-tuition-harlan-crow/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F39e98c1%2F6453d8cda61bab12f751179e%2F5e3e18879bbc0f632693c546%2F23%2F72%2F6453d8cda61bab12f751179e
Yeah. I refuse to live my life like Clarence Thomas.
And now it's like you have extra - the refund PLUS the $1000 that for a little while, you thought you'd have to pay!! $$$
I’m rich! Well, no…I am. I’ll never be rolling in dough. But yeah. I’m rich.
Hurrah!
Underfunding IRS employment is of course a long-run concern that results in undermonitoring and under enforcement of the returns and payments of those with the deepest pockets and longest-winded lawyers, and in taxpayers having a very hard time getting IRS help.
It hadn't occurred to me to wonder how that's going on a secretary-of-state-by-state level. Sounds like Connecticut and Colorado rock, but I wonder about, say Arkansas....
Wonder about Texas and Missouri and Oklahoma too. I often am reminded that though CT has its challenges (some big ones), the state at least does this kind of thing properly.
Texas of course has no state income tax, though plenty of excise taxes. Does OK have state income tax? I'm pretty sure MO does....
Good point. OK does. So does MO.