Most people I know do not like doing taxes. I, on the other hand, find a deep satisfaction in completing my taxes. Taxes remind me of those worksheets you had to do in elementary school, the ones with lots of adding and subtracting. This is probably because I vaguely remember being in elementary school and having a teacher tell us we could help our dads with the taxes because we knew math. Perhaps I also find taxes simple because I tend to ignore any of the lines that I don't remember from when I used to fill out the 1040EZ (yes, that is years and years ago, since you only do taxes once a year). I figure if they didn't apply then why should they apply now?
This sometimes leads to problems, like my frustration with the Michigan tax form, because I didn't want to Michigan to include the Indiana income when computing the tax due. Eventually I filled out the right forms and read all the instructions, and it worked out.
Dan and I are happily getting almost all our taxes back. I say almost all, because Indiana still wanted us to pay use tax, and Michigan thought, despite the pitiful amount I made there, having only worked for 4 months in Michigan, that we still owed them some money. Oh well, at least we'd paid more that that already.
I guess we should all read directions. Especially when we're trying to figure out how to not pay the government.
There definitely are a lot of directions to read while doing taxes! Jeff has redone them a few different times to see what we should claim and what we shouldn't claim. It's so interesting how everything changes. :)
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