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Monday, 14 January 2008

Today's Fuck You goes to the IRS

I got something in the mail from them postmarked January 4th. Guess I should have opened it sooner but I didn't think it was anything more than something for my estimated taxes or to file for 2007.

I was having an awful day yesterday, you can read more in the Weekend Recap, but anyway it was after 11p, just home from work, hadn't eaten all day and was so hungry I decided to make myself a burger from the ground beef I had left over from Saturday. While I was cooking the burger I decided to open this IRS mail. Basically it said that one of their accountants had gone over my 2006 taxes and decided I owed $2,725.90 and I could either agree w/ the proposed changes or disagree and supply additional info why I disagreed. I couldn't really deal w/ it at the time to figure out what the hell happened so I passed it over to Jenn and she was able to tell me they charged me a self-employment tax of $2,573 plus interest, $152.90.

Nice. At least it's not as bad as it could be. I'm not self-employed so they can't charge me. It's complicated being a postdoc fellow because they don't take out taxes from my pay and I have to pay quarterly estimated taxes, and I don't get a W2 but a 1099 so it looks more like I am self-employed but postdoc fellows are not subject to the self-employment tax. I called the IRS today and spoke w/ someone who told me to fax my 1099 but of course I don't have it so I have to try and get a copy from MIT.

Hopefully that's all it takes. Too bad I do my own taxes so maybe it was something I screwed up but I hope it doesn't happen again because I'm not paying some accountant to do them unless I absolutely have to, like if I get the NIH LRP and then they make you have someone do it. Until then I can handle it.

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Posted: Jan 14, 2008 19:03

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