Whata Mess?

I had intended to post a couple of things this week, but I got (almost literally) tied up with an earlier stupid action.  Back in April, I got most of my tax return finished. but foolishly I got a little tired so I asked for an automatic exemption.  (Old coots become, for the most part, master procrastinators)

Monday I sat down to the return figuring that I had about three hours work.   BIG MISTAKE.    I had never counted on the fact that I had refinanced both of my houses and rented one of them and that this would make things really crazy.

Even then, I Xed a box somewhere that made me subject to the standard deduction and wouldn’t “flow” the supplementary materials. 

 

YAAAAAAAAGH.   for three days, no matter what I did, i had a tax burden (federal) of about 3700 dollars and was beginning to look around for things or people to sell.

It was a fluke and whenever I finally unchecked the box, everytihing went swimmingly and the return floated off in a Turbo Tax E file.  I am slowly becoming sane again  and my family will quit hiding when I come our of the office.