Tax-time surprise

[chanaleh]

Holy crap... by my calculations, I actually get a $181 refund from the Feds. (And have to pay the State $11. Usually it's the other way around.)

This is oh so much better than the several hundred bucks I had to pony up a few years ago (the first year I did Schedules C/SE, I guess; whoopee for freelance work). I seriously adjusted my withholding after that. I know, free loans to Uncle Sam, yadda yadda... but the 78 cents I would have made in interest on this amount is oh so worth the peace of mind I feel right now.

I went right ahead and wrote checks to my favorite charities, for almost the entire total. What the hell, they've been waiting for it from me for months. :-)

Bed now. Pizza tomorrow. Baruch ha-Shem.

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yay for refunds. :) Making a habit of donating the refund is a wonderful idea, too. I usually do a bunch of donations about once a year, and then at tax time (when itemizing), invariably (not matter the total) feel guilty about not having given more.

(FWIW, I usually owe the state and have to pay the feds because the latter allow many more deductions.)