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Surprise! Got an Envelope From IRS

Posted on May 8, 2008
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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.

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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! .

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One Response to “Surprise! Got an Envelope From IRS”

  1. Mrs. Micah (19 comments.) on May 8th, 2008 9:54 pm

    I’m sorry. *hugs* I should backup some more.

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