Oh, and for those of you who heard me whining about the tax paperwork this week? Guess what, it wasn't ME. I was feeling so stooooopid, and wondering why in the world I couldn't figure the form they sent me from the State department of Revenue. I finally went to an Actual Tax Accountant yesterday, who had to check with the senior partner in the Firm to be sure...yep, here's the new form the State said they were going to start using this quarter....turns out THEY thought it was complete gibberish, and weren't sure what was being asked for. You'd think they'd send the new forms to the people who fill them OUT, wouldn't you? Guess what his Sage Advice was?
VOTE.

lifelong knitter

I picked up on this because I just spent last weekend working on taxes, and could not figure out why the state form said that they were refunding me all of my money. I use a computer program to do it, and, you know, you figure it must be your mistake, and not the program's, because they're supposed to be right.

I finally printed everything out and looked at it line by line, and it turns out that, while I had entered everything correctly on the duplicate W2 forms, it was entering ten times the Social Security tax I paid on the state form. Not federal -- that was okay -- just state.

I'm glad I figured it out. I doubt anyone would have been convinced that either a) I accidentally entered a figure exactly ten times what I really paid or b) I truly believed that I deserved a complete refund of all my state taxes.