The State: Coldest of Cold Monsters: Fun with Taxes
I’m fucked. I don’t usually use such language on here.. but I’m in a rage, and.. well when you’re in a rage.. sometimes you are given to things that if you were “in your right mind” you might not do. So.. yeah, I’m fucked.
Ok, here’s the basic deal, it’s creeping up on 11 PM on the last day you can file your taxes. I was under the impression that you could file for free online.. this from a consumer reports magazine article.. if you made less then X amount in 2007. You know how much I made in 2007? Try Zero.
In Massachusetts there’s a state law that makes having health insurance mandatory, if you don’t have it, you get fined… or something. Or you do if you can afford health insurance. You would think someone who made zero couldn’t afford it, right? Well it turns out, by there law, I could! How? Well I’m entitled to free state insurance… if I had filed for it by the deadline.. which I didn’t because I didn’t know about it… didn’t even know about the deadline… how groovy is that? And because I qualify but didn’t get it.. I could afford it, thus I get fined.
Yeah… fun fun fun.
So I guess I could file tonight.. if I could figure the fucking BS out. I can’t… I maybe could if I wasn’t sooooo over tired.. I didn’t know that on a scale of 1 to 100.. the usability of the system is about negative 50… Didn’t know this was going to be a problem….
So what the fuck?
So what’s the penalty for filing late anyway? I have no idea.. but in my current state of mind.. I’m seriously ready to go blow shit up, you know what I mean? In reality, shit probably isn’t as bad as I imagine it.. I mean fuck, I don’t even know what the penalties are… but it feels pretty fucking bad. I have no idea what the fuck I’m supposed to do… I’m just feeling screwed, and in need of venting. So thanks for listening.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Typically the penalty is whatever you would have gotten back, you don’t. But since you didn’t pay anything, it’s unlikely you would have gotten anything. Get yourself to a tax office quickly. Try for some kind of hardship extension if there is such a thing up there. *hugs* And don’t worry hon. It will work out.