I did my taxes. Doing my taxes always fills me with dread. Taxes are not my friend. Oh sure, they used to be. I used to get large returns every year. “Free money” that I would use to buy something special, it was not to be used to pay a bill. That would have been an unexceptible way to spend a tax refund. I would spend it on clothing or furniture…something nice and unneccisary.
But, last year, I was audited. If you have never been audited, I wouldn’t recommend you try it out. It sucks. It was one of the worse experiences of my life. To sit there in front of people who are convinced you are a crook and defend your spending for the previous year, was painful at best, hideous at worse. They treated me like I was freaking Al Capone, people.
So, I was expecting a large bill that I would have to pay this year. I am not easy, I know. I had 8 w-2’s and 6 1099’s. It was complicated. I told my tax man…who I have because when I was audited I had done my taxes with TaxCut and was thrown under the bus alone with no backup….that I wanted to owe under a grand.
An hour later, he told me the news. I owed Illinois. They just don’t take enough. Good ole Daley. And I was getting a refund from the federal government. A refund! I was thrilled. I shouted, “SHUT UP” in the office. I was beside myself with happiness.
Ah, money. Now I can concentrate on my dream of being
independently wealthy again!
