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Surprise! Got an Envelope From IRS

Posted on May 8, 2008
Filed Under emergency fund, survival |

I got home from work today and checked my mail. Surprise!! There was an envelope from the IRS. I am not expecting my stimulus check until July and it felt awfully thick to be a check and guess what? It wasn’t! It was a notice that I owe them about $1500 more from my 2006 taxes. I wish I could say that they made a mistake but I think the mistake was mine. I had a 401k loan that must have come due when I left my job. So I have to pay taxes on it plus the penalty.

by Cremo

This would be right after my hard drive crashed. It’s amazing the amount of stuff that I keep on my computer including my 2006 tax return. Sigh! Thankfully when I bought my latest laptop, I swapped out the hard drive so I had a spare. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have any of my stuff on it.

I have been working at getting the basic software installed on the new hard drive. That by itself should take me a few days. In the meantime, I had stored all of my passwords, logins, etc in a file on my old one. It may take me awhile to get it all straightened out. If you send me a message or an email and don’t hear from me, you can find me on Twitter. Twitterfox was one of the first things I installed!

I lost all my bookmarks for my round up this week so I will be working hard to reconstruct it. There were some great posts so I hope I can find them all.

Other than those two things, it’s been a great day. Busy as heck at work which is always good! If business keeps on like this for another month or so, I will be in good shape financially for the winter. That would be a blessing!

Help keep me awake to write by buying me a cup of coffee! .