In July 2010 I had a backup accident with my computer.  I'm still experiencing issues from that time.  One huge problem was that I used tax software and I had made an electronic copy of our income tax returns.  You know, trying to go paperless?   I think I've learned my lesson by now and won't be going paperless any time in the near future. I needed to recreate our tax returns and so I set about getting copies so that… Read the rest

One of my many tasks for my employer is to process the payroll and print out checks.  Since we are all salaried and paid twice a month, this is usually an easy and –  dare I say – almost boring task since usually everything stays the same month after month. However, the first payroll run of the year added some excitement and was actually a bit of a challenge because of the 2011 tax changes, namely the federal income tax… Read the rest

Seven weeks ago I told you about my experience in ordering the transcript of our income tax return.  With that post I included a scanned image of said transcript to show others what I'd received from the IRS.  I complained that this is not what I was promised in conversation with the IRS “This transcript contains all of the lines of the return which you used,” and felt as if I had no option but to order a copy of… Read the rest