Two more hours with H&R Block and we’re done with the Federal, the RI, and the MA returns. MN has to be sent to someone who is certified to deal with MN taxes, which was not our agent (though she was quite good). They used 3.5″ floppies to send the files. It was so quaint!
This was easily the worst year we’ve ever had for taxes. We owe about $1,000 to the feds, and another $1,400 to MA. My employer and I screwed up by not withholding any MA tax from my earnings this year. Through some serious dark magic (all entirely justifiable, we’re assured) we’re getting a refund from RI, and we have no idea about MN. MN ought to be a small refund, like it has been for the past four years. I need to crank my withholding by dropping my exemptions to zero or something.
Oh yeah, the H&R Block part cost $376, which was worth every penny, because I didn’t have to fill out the 50-odd pages of forms that we mailed in today…set aside filling them in correctly.
Also met with our planning guy who has finally come through with disability and life insurance. More check writing there.
In between, we went to the grocery store for a major replenishment run, and did other assorted errands.
My check-card is tired and scared and refuses to come out of the wallet anymore for the day.
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