Urge to Kill ACTIVATED
Feb. 24th, 2004 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
my_window_seatFinally got over to the free tax help place at the Voc-Tech to get my taxes filed - only to find out that one of my employers had entered the wrong social security number on my W-2.
So, another two weeks of waiting for the new W-2. With the potential of future headaches later on, due to the information having to be re-processed by both the IRS and the State Revenue Department - and the Staties being total nimrods, this is almost invariably going to come back and bite me on the ass later.
The other super-fun part of the day came when the very sweet but very CLUELESS old woman at the tax assistance place gave me the incorrect amount on the taxes owed - whereupon I left there thinking that I was actually going to be owing the IRS somewhere around $700-$800. Tears ensued. Then I looked at the figure she had scribbled down as the taxes that I had had withheld for the year - and realized that it was in no way a reflection of reality. Somehow she came up with a figure of $312 as being the amount of taxes that I had had withheld over the course of the year - when in actuality, I had something like $1,500 in taxes withheld. I had something like 6 or 7 different jobs last year, and I think she only looked at one of my W-2's to come up with that figure. I'm sure she is a nice, well-meaning person - but fuck me gently with a chainsaw - I did NOT need that kind of stress! I'm just glad she was wrong - I've only owed the IRS once in my life, and now would not be the time to have that happen again.
Jumped up Jesus in a chariot driven sidecar...
The moral of the story: You Get What You Pay For. If the tax help is free, you should probably expect that you're gambling on the accuracy of said help.
And: Paperwork processed by the payroll department of a Temp Agency - is frequently done by temps. And in my 10+ years as a temp, I met some of the most unemployable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Obviously I got one of the ones who is a little light on the proofreading skills. Thanks. No, thanks, really.
In other words, I am going to trust my own calculations and hope for the best.
Fucking waste of a day. Now, to start working on yet ANOTHER rush painting order - DUE TOMORROW.
I am not a Happy Camper. No, indeed.
So, another two weeks of waiting for the new W-2. With the potential of future headaches later on, due to the information having to be re-processed by both the IRS and the State Revenue Department - and the Staties being total nimrods, this is almost invariably going to come back and bite me on the ass later.
The other super-fun part of the day came when the very sweet but very CLUELESS old woman at the tax assistance place gave me the incorrect amount on the taxes owed - whereupon I left there thinking that I was actually going to be owing the IRS somewhere around $700-$800. Tears ensued. Then I looked at the figure she had scribbled down as the taxes that I had had withheld for the year - and realized that it was in no way a reflection of reality. Somehow she came up with a figure of $312 as being the amount of taxes that I had had withheld over the course of the year - when in actuality, I had something like $1,500 in taxes withheld. I had something like 6 or 7 different jobs last year, and I think she only looked at one of my W-2's to come up with that figure. I'm sure she is a nice, well-meaning person - but fuck me gently with a chainsaw - I did NOT need that kind of stress! I'm just glad she was wrong - I've only owed the IRS once in my life, and now would not be the time to have that happen again.
Jumped up Jesus in a chariot driven sidecar...
The moral of the story: You Get What You Pay For. If the tax help is free, you should probably expect that you're gambling on the accuracy of said help.
And: Paperwork processed by the payroll department of a Temp Agency - is frequently done by temps. And in my 10+ years as a temp, I met some of the most unemployable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Obviously I got one of the ones who is a little light on the proofreading skills. Thanks. No, thanks, really.
In other words, I am going to trust my own calculations and hope for the best.
Fucking waste of a day. Now, to start working on yet ANOTHER rush painting order - DUE TOMORROW.
I am not a Happy Camper. No, indeed.
