Nothing is certain except...
Feb. 27th, 2014 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaAfter 12 years divorced I can still get furiously angry with the ex. Last night I attempted to file my taxes, only to have my returns rejected on the grounds that someone else had already claimed Rosa as a dependent. We've been doing the alternate years thing for 12 years; it ought to be second nature by now. I wanted to strangle him. The difference in my refund between having a dependent to claim and not having her exceeds a thousand dollars! I chose not to even call him until this morning, in the hopes that I'd be able to be civil about it.
So when I called him, he says it's just a mistake and he'll amend his return tonight. Apparently his mother has been doing his taxes for him until 2011, and he's flummoxed by the software?!?! Forty-five years old and he's only been doing his own taxes for three years? Ye gods and little fishies. My mother made me do *hers*--on paper! 1040 long form, itemized mortgage and charitable deductions, and all!--as practice when I was no more than 16, and I've been doing my own returns since my first high school job.
Crossing my fingers that my return goes through without a hitch on the next attempt. I need it, my airtickets for Ambercon are waiting on it!
So when I called him, he says it's just a mistake and he'll amend his return tonight. Apparently his mother has been doing his taxes for him until 2011, and he's flummoxed by the software?!?! Forty-five years old and he's only been doing his own taxes for three years? Ye gods and little fishies. My mother made me do *hers*--on paper! 1040 long form, itemized mortgage and charitable deductions, and all!--as practice when I was no more than 16, and I've been doing my own returns since my first high school job.
Crossing my fingers that my return goes through without a hitch on the next attempt. I need it, my airtickets for Ambercon are waiting on it!
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Date: 2014-02-28 02:20 pm (UTC)And yet, I am not surprised.
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Date: 2014-02-28 07:50 pm (UTC)Which is helpful, I guess, since the rest of me just continues to be pissed off. He hasn't called yet to tell me he fixed it...
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Date: 2014-03-01 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-01 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-01 01:33 pm (UTC)My dad did my taxes until I was 40, but he developed income tax software for a living. He'd run about a dozen friends-and-family returns as test cases each year.
Heh. So, what I find strange is, 45 years old and he's flummoxed by the software. He's not old enough to say that. WTF?
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Date: 2014-03-03 03:43 pm (UTC)still, at least he is fixing it.
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Date: 2014-03-04 07:47 pm (UTC)