omgwtf!

I paid my 2005 taxes today.

For the first time in 10 years, I paid all my taxes for a full year. I win. I am delirious.

I also paid my first quarter taxes for this year, and according to my calculations, I was roughly $1300 short on the payment. I’ve been tearing my hair out wondering how I’m going to make this up.

Well, that would have been the case if my calculations weren’t wildly inaccurate. Turns out I was basing the entire year on an extimate of $600 a month. That would have turned out to be $7,200 a year in taxes. I did the math today…the burden of this has been incredibly heavy…and when I saw the $7,200 number, it struck me forcibly that this was nothing short of crazy talk. I dont pay $7,200 a year in taxes!

Then of course I couldn’t remember what I paid last year…was it $5,700? $6,100? Goddamn it…

I pulled out the paperwork and had a look and it turns out that I paid “only” $5,450 in taxes for last year. Which means, of course, that the $1300 I thought I owed for this quarter has completely vanished. If I pay $600 a month every month from May to December I’ll still wind up paying $150 extra.

This is…unbelievably cool. Almost all the incredible stress I’ve been under for three months has vanished. Vanished. Gone. Just like that.

And it only took me four and a half months to do the math.

:lol: !!