Yeah!!!
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I filed the taxes today!
Between federal refund and state owed, I get a net $197 refund.
I know filing taxes doesn’t sound like much. But for some of us it’s a challenge having to log into 6 different systems (each with their own quirky MFA and ways of authenticating you and quirky UIs) just to get the necessary documents.
Oh, and also digging through “the pile” (where mail goes to die) to find that one document that’s not available online. All those documents that they don’t bother to tell you up front that you’ll need.
And then sit through basically an hour-long interview with a spastic artificial bureaucrat who keeps trying to sell you things you don’t want and asking questions in weird ways. Like “check here if you have a dependent that meets the following criteria: paid more than half of support costs for”. And then you get to a later step and it says your dependent doesn’t qualify because they paid more than half of their costs, but you checked it because the question as you read it was asking if you paid more than half the costs.
It’s not difficult to actually do the taxes, but there’s a whole lot of added difficulty, for flavor I guess. And then at the very final step they ask you for a document you don’t have and didn’t know you would need.
But I did it!
I’m thinking next year I might go back to just filling out and mailing in the forms, because that was always much easier than these online e-filing ‘solutions’.
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I am impressed at the spotless condition of your ladder!
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I have just paid my mother’s tax penalties for 2024 and estimated tax for 2025 in a Chicago hotel room on my 10-year-old iPad Mini 4.
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