Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Mute Testament

     I'm relating to the "Less Than Zero" theme.  I spent most of 2 days working on our Federal Income Tax Return, more than that counting time spent collecting all the data and downloading the forms, etc.   The net result was 0.  We don't owe anything nor do we get a refund.  It's the first year, 2014,  that neither of us has any earned income, the first for me since 1960.  There are a few iffy issues and I may have erred somewhere, but I went with it anyway.  I had no desire to seek out a tax professional, as I did a few years ago.  After plugging all the numbers into his workplace computer, he kindly suggested I go with my own computations.  He said if it turned out I owed more than I figured I had to pay, the penalty wouldn't be very much anyway.  I offered to pay the fee, but he refused, said he'd enjoyed the conversation.  I can't go through that again.  Talk about cipher.

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