Okay, I filed my taxes. Not that I made any money but some how, and this isn’t the first time it has happen to me, I have capital gains from mutual funds that I didn’t sell. So if anyone tells you that you don’t pay capital gains on mutual funds till you sell them, they are wrong.
I was able to use Turbo-Tax and e-file for free. There are a list of sites that have free preparation software at: http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp?ck I clicked on “Turbo-Tax FREEdom edition” from the list. If you want an exercise in patience and some time to reflect on how the requirements of society are ruining your life, I suggest you try it with a dial-up connection.
There are also programs where you bring your paper work in to a live person and they enter everything for you for free. For more information and to find a site near you, go to this easy to remember URL: http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=107626,00.html or call 1-800-829-1040 My sister volunteers at one of those places to do taxes for free. That says something about the vast differences between us: she volunteers to do peoples taxes and I was questioning, “Is life really worth living?” just doing my own.
This year the government has decided to shower free money on people, but if you–say–spent the whole year hiking and hanging out at your cabin, instead of working, don’t get your hopes up.
Every year when tax time rolls around and I am forced to do paper work and remember PINs and passwords, and my small cabin becomes cluttered with paper work, I think, “This is not the life I want”. I start thinking I should just walk away and live the life of a wandering nun, with robes and a bowl.
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Hey there! Speaking of tax time, thought you might be interested in this: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.22.95/yogi-9547.html
Ha! I suspected he was an odd dude the way he never updated his book. It was selling well, but he kept all that dated stuff about women in it and kept the model with the big fake eyelashes; like he didn’t know any better.
I was surprised to read that people thought of him as a Guru. There is nothing in that book that struck me as enlighten.
Still, it’s a good plan to learn yoga from.