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Great. I got a letter from the IRS saying that I have failed to file the Dodeka return. I *mailed* the Dodeka return on a timely basis, but apparently it is lost. Now they want nearly $500.

This can probably be sorted out and I will have to pay to mail them return again (which is a noticeably large amount, because you have to use a large, flat envelope), but I can't call them to discuss this until Monday, because the letter arrived late today. I will get to chew on this over the weekend, which is just perfect.

(Note that I have heard nothing from Illinois, who got a copy of my Federal return appended to the State return, because that's how Illinois rolls...)

*sigh*

The Dodeka taxes are in the mail and the accountant has everything else. Go, me.

Tonight was the choir concert over at the school. It was a lot of fun watching the kids.

The kitchen sink is hopelessly clogged. Since I am off to Thing tomorrow, Gretchen will have to find a plumber to clear it.

I will see some of you there!

(No, not at the kitchen sink...)

The taxes are off to the accountant.

I still have to *mail* the Dodeka forms to the Feds and the State, but I can assemble those tonight and get them out of here tomorrow. :)

The Dodeka taxes are now done and ready to go in the mail.

All I need to do now is locate everything that needs to go to the accountant for our taxes. :)

I have made the final adjustments to the Dodeka taxes and have filled out and printed the Federal forms. I still need to do the same for the Illinois forms.

And then I can gather up all of my other documents and give them to my accountant so that he can do the taxes for Gretchen and me. Whee!

It is amazing how difficult it is to make headway on the taxes when you're just a little under the weather. And I continue to be just a little bit under the weather.

The taxes, however, need to be done and filed and/or on their way to the accountant this week, so tomorrow night should see progress made.

Or else.

The taxes are almost done. I need to go over some of the inventory numbers and figure out how to account for a few odd things, but the overall picture is pretty close to correct.

It is not a pretty picture.

We are close to the point where getting tables at conventions and selling CDs becomes a money-losing operation. Not yet. But the total income for the year was less than $1000 and *half* of that was from our Bandcamp and streaming sales, where I've effectively just thrown all of our income into the company. And there are various things that made last year relatively expensive -- for instance, not having a roommate for GAFilk, which I corrected this year.

But we're down to three conventions a year right now and getting into more conventions to sell is likely to be annoyingly expensive. If you don't do $1500 in sales at a convention, you are probably going to lose money there. Only one of our three cons cleared that much and that was OVFF. Not counting the COVID year of 2020 where we only had two conventions (and no OVFF!), our sales were the lowest ever and down more than 30% from last year.

It may be that we are dinosaurs.

But we are dinosaurs who are carrying about $10,000 worth of other people's inventory (and about the same of our own), so we will lumber along for a while longer. :)

I got less done on the taxes today that I had hoped, but made some progress. One of the sources of delay was that I had promised Julie to clean the dust out of her computer. She was concerned about the amount of noise that the computer was making and believed that the dust was the problem.

She was quite likely correct. The machine was choked with dust in many places, including the case fans, the fans on the video card, and in the CPU heatsink. I cleaned essentially all of the dust out using damp paper towels for non-sensitive areas, while a tweezer and a needle got some of the trickier dust and hair out. And, of course, there was the occasional puff of breath into the case, sending dust flying everywhere.

My sinuses may forgive me someday.

The computer is still a bit louder than I might like (although not that loud for a gaming machine). If we don't like how it's behaving, I can replace the heatsink (which is probably the most useful thing) and also consider replacing the case fans, as those are cheap. In the meantime, I noticed that it is running Windows 10 and is eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 11, so that is now in process. Julie does not care much for change, so this will be temporarily disturbing, but I should be able to neutralize most of the major Windows 11 annoyances without too much trouble.

Tomorrow, I will get back to the taxes. This will be aided by having to have someone up early and awake at all possible hours so that FedEx will have no excuse for not delivering my delayed package this time. Remembering, of course, that they had no excuse for not delivering it on Friday -- they just decided to lie and say that no one was home...

After two weekends of good intentions, I have actually gotten started pulling together the Dodeka taxes for 2024. This is not going to be pretty...

I am home for the full weekend for the first time in a while, which means that I now need to start cleaning up the stack of work that needs to be done. In addition to the usual "around the house" stuff, I also get to pay the monthly bills and start work on the income taxes.

Ah, well.

The Dodeka taxes are on the kitchen table in envelopes and waiting to be mailed.

All of the information for our taxes and for my dad's trust (for which this will be the final tax filing) has been uploaded to our accountant.

I still need to write two checks -- one from me to Dodeka and a larger one from Dodeka to me -- to clear out last year's accounts.

And then my part in this year's taxes will be done. :)

Tomorrow, it will be back to working on the taxes. Right after I clean up the mess of tablet stuff on my desk from the filkbook experiment that got piled on them last week.

Speaking of filkish matters, I have become very fond lately of the Taylor 326ce that I picked up last year. It is currently the go-to guitar here in my office. I got a recommendation to try a heavier pick on it and have started playing with a 1.3 instead of a .88, which is sounding pretty good.

I think I will probably take it to the next convention with me. (Which means I needed to find the humidifier to go with me, which I finally located in the spot where I'd put it for safekeeping. :) )

The spreadsheet for the Dodeka taxes is done. I'm waiting to check on a couple of pieces of info, but other than that it's ready to get copied onto the tax forms.

And that means that I can roll on to the taxes for Dad's trust (which we are shutting down this year) and our personal taxes.

But not today. :)

It turns out that laundry and taxes are just as unavoidable as the canonical death and taxes. Accordingly, after I get up early to deliver K to rehearsal for the winter musical at school, I will return home and embark on an exciting journey into the land of laundry and taxes for the weekend.

I will also let the Ruby the Dog out and probably watch an episode of "Flip or Flop", because I am entitled to a certain amount of time off. :)

Well, the theory of working on the taxes today was good. And I have managed to accumulate a great deal of data in a short time.

Unfortunately, the dimbulbs at Synchrony Bank only allow you to download the most recent 12 months of credit card statements. This is moronically useless when trying to prepare taxes late in January, because you can no longer retrieve the January statement from the prior year which has expenses from the first half of that month embedded in it.

So I am now waiting for them to mail (or perhaps email) me the necessary statement.

But really. That's just dumb.

I finished testing my new feature today and have checked in the changes. I found a couple of configuration errors in the test case that I was using, but once I fixed those, everything behaved the way that I had hoped that it would, so I find that very encouraging.

I am now ready for the weekend.

Unfortunately, the plans for the weekend include a lot of working on the 2023 taxes, but although working on them is not fun, having them done will be! :)

As part of the preparations for GAFilk, I needed to count the inventory in the basement and get the list of what I believe is in the traveling inventory. This serves two purposes. First, it let's me look at the list of the traveling inventory and see what I need to get from the basement. Second, it is information I need to be able to file the taxes.

The traveling inventory is now entered into the 2023 tax spreadsheet, which means that I have officially started on the Dodeka taxes.

Whee!

This afternoon, I finished (almost) getting the taxes ready to go to the accountant. I still need one number from my financial advisor to make sure that the return for my Dad's trust has everything needed, but I dropped off an email today and should be able to get that in the morning.

Then I played the next-to-last batch of games for the computer division in my APBA baseball league. I have an eight game lead in the division with thirteen games left to play. This makes me think my chances are good, but with a magic number of six, things can still go wrong. Shohei Ohtani leads the team with 46 home runs. No one else on the team has more than 30. :) And he has a 14-5 record as a starting pitcher. One starts to understand how he won the MVP in 2021.

We finished up the evening watching the end of the Cuba vs. USA game, which was a good thing if you were a USA (and Cardinals fan), as Wainwright and Mikolas only gave up a run each while each pitching four innings. And although Arenado left the game after getting hit with a pitch, the X-rays were negative, so that's a *very* good thing.

Having a day off from work doesn't mean this hasn't been a busy day. I have gotten a much-needed haircut, had lunch with Gretchen, picked up (and ordered more) prescriptions from Walgreens, returned an item to Amazon at Kohl's, caught up with an old friend on the phone, and filled out the Federal tax returns for Dodeka. The Illinois returns still need to be filled out, but I'll do that later tonight, I think, as it is getting really close to dinner time.

I found a couple of things as I was filling out the return. One was a *one cent* error that required me to go back and correct some of the numbers that I had already filled in. The other was that the industry code that we have used has been removed from the list. Apparently, music retailers have vanished, so we are now a "miscellaneous" retailer.

Whee!

There are two numbers that I am checking on that are the last things that I need to know to finish up the Dodeka taxes from last year.

I may be just about done with this return.

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Entries tagged with taxes

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