Bright Ideas

Did you get your taxes filed by April 15 or 16 or 17? Brice filed ours over the computer and the feds and state accepted both. It’s an easy enough project for Brice, but he tends to put it off. If we owed either, it would make sense to keep your money as long as you could, but if the government owes you, why not get it as soon as you can?

When I was single, the wife of one of the graduate students worked for a CPA. In tax season they needed extra help to type finished tax returns. It was part time work and the pay would be nice.

I never learned the proper way to type numbers, so I had to remember the number and then look at the keyboard to type it. It went slowly, and you couldn’t make any mistakes! That was before computers.

I did our taxes once, many years ago. According to my calculations, we would get a nice refund. We attended an art auction, and I kept upping my bid on a watercolor named the “Flat Cat.” Finally I reached the sum of my supposed tax refund and the “Flat Cat” went home with someone else.

It wasn’t long before we received notification that we owed the government money. Brice has handled our taxes ever since. He may cut it close, but he doesn’t make mistakes.