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Like what I really need right now is to owe the government money. However, we do. We got a notice from the IRS that we didn't include some interest income in our 2004 taxes. I checked it out and they're actually right and it seems it might be my fault.
I was having my mom's friend's retired accountant husband doing it for a couple years after we got married, but when I had checked it over for 2004, I noticed he hadn't included any of the deductions for being in school and loan interest payments and so forth. So I redid them. We still would have made out better than had I gone with his version, which actually had us paying instead of receiving.
But here's where I seem to have screwed up. John still had a CD in New Hampshire until we recently rolled it over and the statements we got from that bank every year are the most confusing thing I have ever seen. I'm actually generally very good at this whole tax business and can figure this stuff out pretty easily. But Providian bank's statements don't line the numbers up with the boxes they're supposed to. Sooooooooo, long story short, I put the wrong number in and it was lower than what it was supposed to be. After they tacked on some interest, we now owe a good chunk.
Of course, it doesn't end there. I need to file an amendment for 2004 to the state. And then I checked out 2005 for the same problem, and I did it again, so I have to file amendments for those, as well. Fabulous.
I was having my mom's friend's retired accountant husband doing it for a couple years after we got married, but when I had checked it over for 2004, I noticed he hadn't included any of the deductions for being in school and loan interest payments and so forth. So I redid them. We still would have made out better than had I gone with his version, which actually had us paying instead of receiving.
But here's where I seem to have screwed up. John still had a CD in New Hampshire until we recently rolled it over and the statements we got from that bank every year are the most confusing thing I have ever seen. I'm actually generally very good at this whole tax business and can figure this stuff out pretty easily. But Providian bank's statements don't line the numbers up with the boxes they're supposed to. Sooooooooo, long story short, I put the wrong number in and it was lower than what it was supposed to be. After they tacked on some interest, we now owe a good chunk.
Of course, it doesn't end there. I need to file an amendment for 2004 to the state. And then I checked out 2005 for the same problem, and I did it again, so I have to file amendments for those, as well. Fabulous.
