I hate taxes

Well, okay, I understand that we need taxes, but the methods by which we vet, submit, and otherwise process our taxes is just too bloody inefficient. I'm not going to go off on that too much, but my experience this year has definitely been crappier than years prior.

Last Friday night I submitted my taxes (and my father's taxes) electronically. In past years, and I've been doing it this way for quite some time (since it was free), electronic processing was quick, cheap, and easy. While it is still pretty easy, it's apparently no longer cheap or quick. They raise the price each year it seems and I don't know what is going on with the processing time this year.

In the past, 24-48 hours after submission, everything would be done. For whatever reason, this year, both my father's and my returns are still "in process" well more than 48-hours after submission. It's a bit frustrating.

For my returns in particular, this is no big deal, really. I'm getting refunds from both state and federal returns, so whenever whatever is being processed finishes matters not to me. However, my father has to submit a payment voucher and a check along with his returns, but that can't happen until all of the "processing" finishes. So I'm going to be doing last minute rushing around tomorrow, providing everything goes through on time, to get all of this wrapped up. I've got to tell ya... in my world (at least at the moment), taxes suck.

But wait, there's more!

After three attempts to submit my mother's taxes electronically, I've now got to turn around and send it in by paper. For reasons that I cannot determine, her return keeps getting rejected electronically (also since last Friday), so now I'm rushing around to send the thing in last minute by paper.


I realize that I have brought this largely upon myself by delaying my submissions until now, but there are reasons. In most past years I've filed in mid-February. And still, at one point, I thought I was "done" last week. The rest of this is just residual crap as far as I'm concerned.