Everyday Randomness

Triple Stressing Over The Taxes

Remember how I said hubby isn’t cooperating with getting our taxes done? I yet again asked him to call the tax woman to set up an appointment, or if he wouldn’t, give me the number and I would. He argued with me about it again last night with the excuse that he doesn’t know when he’ll be able to take off work. I yet again said let me handle it, then you can swing by the office the next day you’re off because of the rain and sign the papers.

*Note that he missed work Friday and half a day today because of rain, and will most likely miss at least half a day tomorrow because of snow. If he had let me make an appointment weeks ago he could have swung by either of those days to sign the papers! MEN!

Anywho, so he finally tells me he thinks I should do our taxes online with Tax Act. Out of all the people I’ve talked to, most of them have recommended Tax Act over Turbo Tax. I’m still iffy about doing that because a few thing are still confusing to me, but he assured me he knew I could do it. After all, I over analyze everything. I mean we’re talking about me, the girl who took 3 years to decided on a cell phone carrier because I wanted the perfect package/service. Nevermind the fact that I chose Verizon in the beginning and still ended up going with them. I still had to analyze every little aspect of everything.

At midnight I tucked hubby into bed after a dose of Nyquil (he’s my sick kiddo right now), and I sat down to go over the taxes again. 4 hours later I think I finally have everything figured out minus one little thing that’s throwing me off on the NC state taxes. I’m happy with the numbers I’m getting, so I decide to leave the NC return for now until I can get an answer. I debate calling the tax lady tomorrow to ask if she’ll charge me less to look over my returns for errors vs filling them out for me. I send off a quick email to Lisa bitching about how much I hate the taxes, then I go right back to work.

I make a mental note to go back to the federal return and enter my student loan interest. I can’t believe I forgot that. First I decide to run the error check on the NC return. I click the button and bam!

I get a big whopping message telling me the site has been taken offline for maintenance! ‘Tis bullshit!

My first thought was what if I had been submitting my returns. How would I know they went through? If I thought they didn’t go through and resubmitted I could screw everything up. A friend of mine’s accountant accidentally submitted her paperwork twice last year, and even though she filed at the beginning of February, the 2nd submission caused her to not get her checks until the end of MAY!

I’m giving up tonight. I’ll look back over everything on the NC return, get an answer to my question, add my student loan interest to the federal, and finish my SC return tomorrow. I don’t feel like waiting for the site to come back up. I’m already stressed to the max.