It seemed like an April Fool's joke...on me! I had someone else do my taxes for the first time ever. That is many, many years. I was forced to because this last year was too complicated and they sent me no booklet or forms. It was scary. She soon put me at ease. She wasn't Mrs. H.R. Block, but she did the job and well. After almost three hours I walked out a free man, and my tax return finished except for Ann's signature. She has signed since then. I am getting a $32.00 refund. The money I paid was the best I have spent in a long time.
Taxes are complicated. It has moved beyond our being able to do it ourselves. It's like changing the plugs on a new car. Can't do that anymore. That is proof as to how flawed the whole system is. It will not make the big change in my lifetime but one will have to come some day. Everyone needs to pay some. No one should escape. On the other hand paying on the basis totally of what one made is not fair. There just has to be a better way.
Anyway, my form is in and accepted by IRS. I have NEVER filed this early. Usually the fifteenth, but never earlier than the fourteenth. I like this much better. Thirty two dollars back. How am I going to spend all that money? ( I forgot for a moment. Ann's name is also on the form.)
