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03/14/2024 - 12:55 p.m.

I stayed up late last night, using IRS "calculator" pages to guess what my taxes will be when I retire.

I still have that "clenched gut" feeling -- that worry -- even though, actually, the numbers all came out really good.

It's weird, because the only reason I even need to do this now is to decide whether to put more in an IRA. (You want to see how much you'll save -- and to do that, you have to know how it's taxed when you take money out...) And it's a whole big calculation -- is your income above this level, and if so then subtract that number and also that number and then add back 85% of that other number...

Yes, you end up with a real low number. But you don't actually enjoy the ride.

So, answer achieved. Yippee? It's just that being dragged through this calculation doesn't feel like wealth and prosperity. Maybe the moral of the story is just that I don't like doing my taxes.

And, but, so... I got them done. And I can be through with that thing I don't want to be doing. For that, I'll say "yippee"...

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