meh

Jan. 25th, 2009 11:22 pm
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Meh. Migraine the last few days. Hit it with codeine at the first sign of trouble, so the only feeling unwell involved was feeling vaguely queasy at one point and thus consuming about half the ginger-related comestibles in the house without even meaning to. But it it still did strange things to my attention span and physical co-ordination (and one of the souvenirs of this is a "paper" cut from a heavy card file...).

I got my brain back today, so I've been wrestling with my UK tax return. What I hadn't realised what that the registration process involves waiting a week or so for a security code to arrive by snail mail (for security reasons), and I only got that on Friday. So I've a week left to feed my tax return into the database, or face a fine. I'm not usually this much of a procrastinator on tax returns, but I've also never had to do a tax return while actually in possession of a full time job before, and as previously noted, said job turns my brain to Swiss cheese by the end of the day.

And after I've done that, it'll be time to do the US tax return. *that's* going to be fun this year, because I'll have to work out how to declare my UK job's income and PAYE tax.
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First draft of my US tax return for the writing business done. Though only Schedule C, not the Self-Employment Taxes form (sigh). Yes, this year I have made sufficient money that try as I might, I cannot find enough legitimate expenses to avoid the horror that is having to pay social security taxes for a system I am not allowed to claim any benefit from. Those of you who are American may thank me for my generous contribution to your retirement fund. I don't suppose I can complain too much about having made enough money from my writing to be liable for SS contributions.

Tomorrow the numbers get fed into Other Half's computer, that it may crunch them and add them to the joint filing. Then I will get to see if I need any *other* forms.

And then in a couple of months we will probably have to do it all over again, only for the UK Revenue. Oh joy. I may spend part of Eastercon whining about this. You have been warned.

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