Did You Do Your Taxes Yesterday?

Did I make your stomach jump? If you’re a normal and responsible person, no worries. If you filed an extension in April and then forgot about them until you didn’t, welcome to my life. Nice to have you. I forgot about them until like, 7 p.m., and then I forgot about them again until 9 p.m., and then I did them. The first time I did them, it said I owed the shutdown federal government (nee the federal government) $2,000 and the state $34, at which point I should have just been like, okay I’m done. But then I got nervous about something and redid parts of them involving my car (which I did not use for business in 2012, but did in 2011 and so they were counting it as a loss, or a sale? I wasn’t sure, I didn’t understand, Google was not helpful). So I just took out all the parts about my car. And then I owed the shutdown federal government (nee the federal government) $2,559 and New York $339. I paid $89 for the privilege of finding this out. Just put it on my tab. :/

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