woo hoo!

[winterbadger]

Maryland taxes completed and filed electronically.

Two down and one to go; I have the VA tax all figured, so I think I will go ahead and do the e-filing for that, even though I have until May 1.

After all, after this I still have another raft of paperwork, being a federal contractor. *sigh*

Somehow, this is one of the things that I still get the pleasant "I'm really a grown-up" feeling when I finish it. :-)

EDIT: Bummer! The Virginia electronic filing system does not support part-year returns. I'll have to do that on paper. *That* I will leave until tomorrow.

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

See, move to Scotland, get a job here and have the government take care of all of that with PAYE. Okay, so you pay more in taxes here than you do in the US... ;)

[winterbadger]

I did a comparison when I first started planning the move, and it's really not that much different in terms of %ages as people often think. Especially since, here in MD, the MD tax form has the tax rate for the state *and* the income tax rate for local government. We didn't have that in VA, but until recently they had a sizable "personal property" tax (it didn't really tax all your property, just your car). Plus local and state sales tax, real property tax, stamp tax, window tax, chimney tax... oh, wait...

[silme.livejournal.com]

Don't forget council tax!

I only had state tax and property tax in Colorado -- no other local taxes of any sort, except for car tax.

But unless you're self-employed, you don't fill out forms here. I do miss refunds, though. ;)

[winterbadger]

And, sadly, no PAYE for me, since I'll be employing myself. That is, I as an employee will have it taken care of for me, but I as an employer will have to do all the bookkeeping. :-)

[silme.livejournal.com]

luis_mw hired an accountant. :)

[winterbadger]

Oh, I'm going to miss the mortgage interest deduction something fierce. :-)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I miss that also.

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Take your time on the Virginia tax (unless you've already finished it). I'm pretty sure their deadline is May 1.

Congrats on getting the others done. Isn't filling out those little forms strangely fun?

[winterbadger]

Filling out the forms used to be fun. This time around, with the deadlines for MD and US looming (yes, the VA is due 5/1) and having to pro-rate every damn thing under the sun, it was really a bother.

Though I found what I should have done (with MD) was go fill it out online to start with--the engine did all the pro-rating for me!