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Apr. 15th, 2010 07:28 pm
My tax day whine
I'll keep this short.
My most complicated taxes to date (sold some big assets), but that's why we have income tax software. I owe a lot, so no hurry to pay. Tuesday night, I plug in the last few missing numbers and attempt to e-file. The secure connexion won't work, so I upload the return manually.
Wednesday at work, I get a message that the IRS has refused the return. So when I get home, I send it off again. This time it uploads automatically. But then this morning, the same message: The Adjusted Gross Income I gave for 2008 doesn't match what's in their files. So I call the IRS, get someone right away, and ask what their records show. And it's completely different than what isd listed on last year's form. No, I didn't make an adjustment.
Whatever, I plug in this number, have to manually upload the file once more, and then spend the morning at work chewing away at my fingers awaiting notification. Around 1 p.m., I get another rejection. So I call the IRS, wait fifteen minutes, and then spend another fifteen talking to the woman at the other end. She's baffled. All the information I give her matches exactly what's in their records. She doesn't know why the number isn't working; she can't give me an alternative number. Why can't I just mail it in?
Um, because I have to work? But I'm so ridiculously anxious about the whole thing that I'm not getting anything done anyway. So I take off at 2 p.m., go home, print out the forms, and walk e them to the damn post office after all. Wish I could relax, but I can't; I've got to get back to work to finish a project, so I can't linger for a drink with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu after dinner.
That, in short, is what I'm doing back at my desk after the sun has gone down. Poor poor me!
My most complicated taxes to date (sold some big assets), but that's why we have income tax software. I owe a lot, so no hurry to pay. Tuesday night, I plug in the last few missing numbers and attempt to e-file. The secure connexion won't work, so I upload the return manually.
Wednesday at work, I get a message that the IRS has refused the return. So when I get home, I send it off again. This time it uploads automatically. But then this morning, the same message: The Adjusted Gross Income I gave for 2008 doesn't match what's in their files. So I call the IRS, get someone right away, and ask what their records show. And it's completely different than what isd listed on last year's form. No, I didn't make an adjustment.
Whatever, I plug in this number, have to manually upload the file once more, and then spend the morning at work chewing away at my fingers awaiting notification. Around 1 p.m., I get another rejection. So I call the IRS, wait fifteen minutes, and then spend another fifteen talking to the woman at the other end. She's baffled. All the information I give her matches exactly what's in their records. She doesn't know why the number isn't working; she can't give me an alternative number. Why can't I just mail it in?
Um, because I have to work? But I'm so ridiculously anxious about the whole thing that I'm not getting anything done anyway. So I take off at 2 p.m., go home, print out the forms, and walk e them to the damn post office after all. Wish I could relax, but I can't; I've got to get back to work to finish a project, so I can't linger for a drink with
monshu after dinner.That, in short, is what I'm doing back at my desk after the sun has gone down. Poor poor me!
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