November 27th, 2006 - Been busy…
Well, not exactly, but away from the computer at least. Last week, Eric was sick so I stayed home for three days. At home, I rarely touch the computer! Instead, I cooked and baked and cleaned and played with Maggie and unpacked boxes. Have I mentioned how much I love being at home with my daughter?????
And started in on my taxes. Can’t do a whole lot yet since I don’t have year-end totals on anything yet. But an initial go-through indicates that we underpaid by about $700. Darn! It’s hard to estimate properly during these years–staring/ending mortgages, new kids, differing donations, etc. I prefer to be spot on, of course. Luckily, we have about that much in the house fund still.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:47 pm EST
I’ve found the last year or so that everyone has to pay more in taxes than they are witholding. We got stuck with an extra $943 in taxes. I figured the taxes separately and found out that my husband (who made a big $16000 that year and paid out 1300 in taxes) owed an additional $660 in taxes! That works out to over 10%. I think the IRS wants us all to claim no exemptions. That will work until they decide to charge us even more.