Death and Taxes

OK yeah, I totally ripped that off that 'Stranger than Fiction" movie- which is in my top 20 list! I think my favorite character in that movie is Queen Latifah's role. Not just because I'm a huge fan of her acting (I know nothing of her music), but because at the end of the movie, when Harold comes to meet Karen, Queen's character (whose name slips my mind at the moment) is so nonchalant about the whole thing. I mean, Karen and Harold are literally FREAKING out (and who can blame them?) and Queen's like, "just let him read it". LOL Just kills me how she's not having a cow as well.

But, a synopsis of a movie is not why I'm writing.
Maybe I should say, death BY taxes, as I feel like they're going to kill us.

It's that time of year again. Tax time. I have to say since moving to Montana, taxes have been really easy to do. We have 1 W2 to file and our dependents, and that's it. We don't get many deductions since we don't own anything but vehicles, and I won't even start on student loans that I don't pay... cause that's a whole other post/rant.

Although the filing process has always been fairly simple, the state taxes have ALWAYS been messed up. In the past 3 years of filing we've always gotten something back from federal. My husband has moved up into a higher tax bracket, so we're feeling the squeeze of that, but we still manage to get SOMETHING back from Uncle Sam. However, we've yet to even break even with Montana. We ALWAYS owe. And I just don't understand it. I've asked hubby to go talk to HR and change his filing so that we put more in throughout the year, but either they can't get it right, or they're just not upping it enough.

The last 2 years we've owed like $60 the first year, then $100 last year. This year they KILLED us with $2300 owed. So, what little we'll be getting back from federal will go to pay that, PLUS some actual out of pocket money.

Personally, I don't necessarily care about getting money back. It's great, it's nice,  it helps to plan for vacations or large purchases, however, I'd be just as happy to break even all the way around. So I hope that hubs can get into HR next week and change our filing AGAIN for the state so that at least we break even next year.. cause this drives me batty. We have 4 children for crying out loud... why aren't they taking enough out of his check to pay the dang taxes?