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Liberal vs. Olney!
Iāve found a way to take away a major part of the pain:
I go for cleaning three times a year! Gahh! Periodontist prescribed. Pain is equally divided over the course of the year.
I owned a business so taxes were pretty complicated. Fortunate enough to have solved it by recently retiring! 
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I finished up my taxes this morning. I did a little bit yesterday, then pushed myself to input and file them, today. Soā¦ its done.
The dentist is another story, my old dental insurance company was bought out by another company. Iāll work on all that in March or April.
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Congratulations! Hope you have lots of fun, food and travel coming your way! 
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I do 4x yr cleaning. I canāt do ultrasonic, has to be the old fashioned way. I consider it insurance against a whole range of worse stuff happening. Makes my cardiologist happy. Iām sure my cooking habits would elicit less enthusiasm. Taxes? It was my legal field once; I gladly give it to my CPA. You know the line about āfool for a clientā - but I do good receipts and documentation. 
. And I keep great recipe documentation ā¦
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What? Dude, you got like 8 weeks left.
Plenty of time to procrastinate!
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And thereās always an extensionā¦
Never done that so Iām not positive, but I think even with an extension donāt you have to pay remainder owed by the regular filing deadline?
I always owe several thousands (on purpose) because I hate the idea of lending Uncle Sugar money all year.
Absolutely. You can file forms late, but the check better be in the mail on time.
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I make quarterly estimated payments throughout the year and try to come close (to my tax liability) ā usually it is a very tiny refund.
Iāve already had one ārun-inā with the IRS, I donāt want another one.
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Better make sure its the right form, thoughā¦ Many years ago, I used the wrong form and you would have thought I robbed a bank and shot the sheriff.
At the end of the day, the net effect was $0, but they sure made it seem like I belonged on the 10 most wanted list.
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I definitely respect that. I run the ragged edge of āpenaltiesā each year but (so far) this last 30 years have been able to skirt penalties despite (typically) owing about 10K each year (my worst year, weird cicumstance all around, I had to cut a check for $120,000 but still had no penalty - very particular year).
I got hit with a $325 penalty in 2021. I just paid it, I really didnāt have the energy to fight with them.
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Wow! That is real big indeed. The worst penalty that Turbotax has suggested to me was $15 when I owed about $12K . I argued with the TT folks and in the end did not pay it. (That one year I owed over $120K at the end was protected by the IRS rules).
At the end of the day, I had spent enough sleepless nights worrying about the situation, so for āitā to just go away for $325ā¦ it was worth it.
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I can understand that, for sure, Dan.
Thereāve been a couple-three articles on this. Iāll have to go tomorrow to find the NYTimes definitive articile that lets you page through each of his books and see the changes.
But to me this is not a good thing.
Sorry.
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Not sure if I should post here or on the what are you watching thread. Think Iāll park it here. Sitting outside tonight looking up at Orion, Big Dipper and Little Dipper in the sky. And as usual along came a helicopter from the old folks home in town. Thereās a reason why the helipad is situated so closely to TOFH and ambulance service almost directly across the street. $27,000. just to lift off and $418 per mile to the nearest hospital. For a total of $47,000. Owned by a bunch of crooks from out of state.
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Whats on my mind. That dreadful snow . Coming tomorrow afternoon. Parking 5 feet from the street. Shoveling the birm from the snowplow.
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