Originally Posted by
Jarhead
A return is an absolute requirement for the stimulus bribe. How else would they know? It is the IRS, you know.
As to my plight, I am just a little upset that the feds and the state of NC make it possible to e-file, but they don't allow you do it directly. You need a surrogate, one like TurboTax that charges $17.95. When you consider the time value of money, that is highway robbery. I would have to be getting a bunch of bucks refund to justify that much. That amount would be about equal to one weeks interest @ 6% on a refund of $15,000.
So why is it that I e-file to get my money faster? No, I'd rather give them the postage, and use the $17 for a nice lunch at Bonefish. I'm in no rush for the refund, but my estimated quarterly payments were a little too high, my bad. In over 55 years of filing, the IRS has avoided making a single error on my returns. So have I, but every time I've used H& R Block, some sort of error was made.
My real complaint is that the Feds, NC and Moore County all make it more expensive to file or to pay electronically. I get around Moore County's surcharge by using Bank of America's on-line "bill pay" software. That works well for just about all of my bills. The IRS and NC don't allow that, and they don't allow me to file directly on-line . Now why is that? That's what I want to know. I'm mad as he11, and I'm not going to stand for it anymore. I will do something about it. I'm going to file my returns at the post office. I can even afford to file them by certified mail, and still be money ahead.