A PSA Announcement...

[sisabet]

If you need an extension to file your Federal Income Tax, and you filed a return in 2001 or 2000, you can file a 4868 by phone. Call 1-888-796-1074. Unless you are me. Then you go all the way downtown to the IRS office on your lunch hour and stand in a very long line and gradually you get closer to the signs at the front and at one point you realize that you can now read the sign at the front of the room and it pretty much says "You Doofus. Grab a Form and Go!" So you do.

Stupid optometrist. She swears my vision is 20/20 with these new contacts. No Fucking way. I hate her - have I ranted about my evil-optometrist who thought I was crazy because I was concerned about histoplasmosis yet? I know a buncha people with it, this is the South, we know I've been exposed and I am having vision and focusing problems - yet she thinks I'm "overly concerned." Well - tell that to my aunt with the big honking blind spots. I should probably see another doctor - it took this one three tries to get me in contacts that I could even drive home in. Also - the mall? Not the best place to find your eye-care professional.

Back to topic - If you file an extension you have until August 15, 2003 to file your 2002 return. If you own money, you will owe interest and penalties on what you do not pay now. I should actually get money back - I need the extension because I cannot find my W-2s.

I make a really crappy adult.

Comments

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Forget being an adult.

Come join Saussy, Beamer, Fit of Pique, Whore!Spike, and I in our hot tub beach house party.

There's always room for Sisabet!

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Sisabet,

Lots of people loose those forms. Lots and lots. That's true of every kind of form. That's why they make extension forms. That's why there are so many extension forms at the office.

I've had to file for extensions, and so have lots of other people. The IRS doesn't care. They're bureaucrats; as long as they have a form, they're happy.

Also, you didn't know the procedure because no one knows these rules except the relevant bureaucrats. (Anyone who learns this stuff for fun is just plain anal-retentive. BTW, do you know any synonyms for "anal-retentive?" I've been trying to thing of a good one forever.)

Don't stress. That's an order. Can't you see my stern expression?

Don't worry...

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

I lost one of my W-2's for awhile, so I called my employer's office and tried to have them send me another one. Right after I hung up the phone, I started organizing some of my papers and I found the W-2. I swear it wasn't there before... I looked! Then I did my taxes online, thinking it would be free, but that's only Federal.. the bastards charged me $17.50 to do my state taxes! I think next year I'll do them by hand. Thanks god I'm still on the EZ form. (i.e., I'm too poor to pay much of anything in taxes.)
So.. yeah. Don't worry... my philosophy is... you live, you learn... you know better next time.

Re: Don't worry...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Heh - I'm post college over 6 years and I'm still using the EZ form. I own nothing and I deduct myself - that is it. Nothing wrong with the EZ luv.

[caille.livejournal.com]

sisabet...what everyone else has said. Plus, just as there's nothing wrong with the ez form, there's nothing wrong with you. Except for, like, that cellular sunburn thingie.

Can't dr dawn do something doctor-y and get you in to see a competent ophthalmologist? You really do need a second opinion.

And next time you feel funky? Repeat the following phrase:

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dawn looks at me like I have grown a second head most days. Her only comment is vague - "Man, it must suck to be you." exclamations and fear of riding in my car after dark (no measurable night vision left).

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

You can also get just about any form online at www.irs.gov. And they have fillable PDFs, so you can have the pretty blue ink that's easy for the IRS to read.

I screwed the pooch on my taxes this year... I owe federal tax for the first time, which sucks, and then the partial-resident form for Oregon state tax was too confusing for me to figure out. So I need help. So I had to file an extension. So I'm a big loser.

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[sisabet.livejournal.com]

nope - I beat you on loser status. I've known for months that I could not find my W-2's (I don't know that I ever received them in the first place). I'm fairly certain that I overpaid - I always do and I didn't make that much more this year then last year. I own no taxable, um, stuff so I'm assuming...argh! I refuse to worry about this.

TN has no state tax (yet) which has been actually a relief. I think Kentucky still owes me from the last time I lived there.