A Taxing Day
A Taxing Day
April 15 fell on Saturday this year, so income tax returns were due before midnight today, the 17. I was very proud we had our income tax returns ready to mail. We even had them done a day early.
In addition to our own taxes, I do that taxes of a blind friend. I have done Sam's taxes for years and understand his situation pretty well. His return it is really fairly simple he does have some investments that modern Turbo tax allows me to plug in the numbers from the 1099's and come up with an accurate return.
So when we had finished our own taxes, I was prepped to do Sam's 2005 return. However the software told me that 2004 had not been completed yet. I checked it out, and indeed the computer was correct! Sam taxes have not been done for 2004. At some point I had gathered the material in a folder and that folder was in his drawer of the filing cabinet, but then I must have forgotten all about it until yesterday.
Fortunately, Sam does not owe any taxes, but he could have received a refund a year ago, money he could have used or at least earned interest on. I will need to tell him that once again I have goofed up his affairs. I take care of paying Sam builds and doing his paperwork. It's not a complex affair because he lives quite simply but there are times when I a cause problems, like in January when I forgot to pay any bills. his or ours.
Like Richard, Sam is very tolerant of my brain lapses and refuses to seek help elsewhere they both preserve my dignity and let me keep trying they both remind me usually but somehow the income tax fell through the cracks. Long years ago, I had gotten Sam out of a big mess with the IRS after the $600,hr. guy failed, Sam and I go farther back than that, it's almost a family thing.
On another, note tomorrow morning I go again to Stanford with Donna. I am looking forward to it. I enjoy her company and it's nice to be a place where I can't do anything. In the a apheresis lab you can set and watch TV or you can just sit. You can't clean nor do any of the work being done there. It's kind of nice to just sit.
I have not packed for the trip yet, nor have I've gotten together our food, I think that I'll do those things in the morning because as I am just too tired to do them now... I have spent several hours today transferring my old blocks to live journal so there would be continuity from my journals into my blogs I am up to about October 15, 2005.
April 15 fell on Saturday this year, so income tax returns were due before midnight today, the 17. I was very proud we had our income tax returns ready to mail. We even had them done a day early.
In addition to our own taxes, I do that taxes of a blind friend. I have done Sam's taxes for years and understand his situation pretty well. His return it is really fairly simple he does have some investments that modern Turbo tax allows me to plug in the numbers from the 1099's and come up with an accurate return.
So when we had finished our own taxes, I was prepped to do Sam's 2005 return. However the software told me that 2004 had not been completed yet. I checked it out, and indeed the computer was correct! Sam taxes have not been done for 2004. At some point I had gathered the material in a folder and that folder was in his drawer of the filing cabinet, but then I must have forgotten all about it until yesterday.
Fortunately, Sam does not owe any taxes, but he could have received a refund a year ago, money he could have used or at least earned interest on. I will need to tell him that once again I have goofed up his affairs. I take care of paying Sam builds and doing his paperwork. It's not a complex affair because he lives quite simply but there are times when I a cause problems, like in January when I forgot to pay any bills. his or ours.
Like Richard, Sam is very tolerant of my brain lapses and refuses to seek help elsewhere they both preserve my dignity and let me keep trying they both remind me usually but somehow the income tax fell through the cracks. Long years ago, I had gotten Sam out of a big mess with the IRS after the $600,hr. guy failed, Sam and I go farther back than that, it's almost a family thing.
On another, note tomorrow morning I go again to Stanford with Donna. I am looking forward to it. I enjoy her company and it's nice to be a place where I can't do anything. In the a apheresis lab you can set and watch TV or you can just sit. You can't clean nor do any of the work being done there. It's kind of nice to just sit.
I have not packed for the trip yet, nor have I've gotten together our food, I think that I'll do those things in the morning because as I am just too tired to do them now... I have spent several hours today transferring my old blocks to live journal so there would be continuity from my journals into my blogs I am up to about October 15, 2005.
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