I owe, I owe

[susandennis]

See this arm? See this leg? They will soon both belong to the U.S. Government! Yep. I got my tax return in the mail today. Which was, honestly, a bit of a surprise. For one thing, I live across the street. Seems we could have saved a buck by just calling me and telling me it was ready for pickup. Which is what I asked for.

But, the bigger issue is where is the 'so... do you want to make a retirement contribution and lower your tax bill? If you contributed xxx then the bill would be xxx or if you contributed xxx your bill would be xxx'

What happened to that discussion? And filing electronically? We don't have that option? I sent an email.

I'm not expecting any huge miracle here but I was hoping for just a bit of a dialog. Instead I get a form letter that suggests, in addition to the $600 fee they are charging, they want to know if I want to pay them an additional $90 for up to $3,000 worth of audit support and an additional $60 for 2 letters they would write to the IRS if the IRS requests letters.

I'm not quite as excited about 'my CPA' as I was a couple of weeks ago.

$19,065 for 2004, 1st quarter of 2005 and CPA bill (not including the $150 of CPA 'insurance'). Holey crapoley.