taxes complete
I finished my taxes last night. As always, it is a good thing as I’m getting a state and federal refund of $981 combined. And, before anyone mentions the tax free loan that I’ve given to government, that isn’t the case for me. All of my income was from self employment and while I technically should pay that quarterly, it is not necessary if you will owe less than $1,000 in taxes – my self employment tax was $580.
Of course, when I have a normal job, I tend to get several thousand back. I wasn’t really expecting a refund; I just wanted to be sure and to claim income this year. Even though I’m a full-time student, I can’t imagine having a year’s gap in employment — that and cleaning and other odd jobs do add up. So, this should go directly into savings; however, I did not direct deposit it into my ING account because I thought it might show up around the same time we’ll need closing costs in hand and didn’t want to have to wait for ING to transfer to my checking account.
I’ll be working on my partners taxes this week. He’s never done his own taxes and I just can’t see paying someone else to do them when I think it is actually *fun* to do taxes. It’s a paper form thing, I love filling out any type of form — I don’t know why, I just do.