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A tax filing horror story

February 03, 2009

Tax Grrrl is collecting tax filing horror stories. The winner of her contest gets a free copy of TurboTax. Through some inexplicable Internet glitch, a couple of the entries ended up coming to me. They're fascinating. Here's the first one.

You won't believe my tax filing horror story. I went and got Turbotax. I even got the current one, though I still had my copy from the year before, and it still worked just fine.
I sat down to do my return, boring stuff. I punched in the W-2 and all the other crap. I knew that there was no FICA and Medicare withheld from my checks, and I got all this BS paperwork saying I would have to pay tax on it, but Turbotax didn't say anything about it. I thought, that's cool, and I filed it that way.

A few years later I get offered a great government job. Some dweeb asks to see all of my tax returns, and sure enough, he says I was supposed to pay the tax. WTF??? So I call a CPA - I hate using them. I'm smarter because I always come up with a better number than those pansies. He says I have to pay up. So now it ends up in all of the papers and I have to write a big check.

Still, I got the job. If I win, you can keep the Turbotax.

Tim

I'll post another one soon.

UPDATE: the other misdirected entry.

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