Yes, it’s time to rant about taxes again.<\/p>\n
Despite having taxes witheld for me (something I despise because it keeps much-needed money out of my pocket), I still owe this year.<\/p>\n
WTF, mate?!<\/p>\n
It’s not like it’s a huge tax liability, either – it’s only $435; but still, that’s a lot of money to some people. And that’s just the Federal tax – the state tax, although not actually worse, is more insulting. I’m getting an $84 refund from the state.<\/p>\n
Whoptie-freakin-do.<\/p>\n
So, now I have to scrounge around and try to find the money to pay my taxes before April 15 (or rather, April 17th this year, because of the weekend & whatnot). I can’t do an extension either, because I have a payment plan with the IRS and the Massachusetts DOR for the last 2 years of tax that I had trouble with. Part of the agreement for being able to pay my back-taxes for those 2 years in small payments is that I must <\/span>pay any new taxes as they come due<\/span>. Which means no extensions.<\/p>\n Thanks, guys.<\/p>\n I hate the IRS. I hate the Mass DOR.<\/p>\n Give me freedom (from taxes), or give me death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, it’s time to rant about taxes again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1079,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/04\/15\/tax-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":720,"position":0},"title":"Tax Day","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, it's that time of year again. 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