Thursday, February 16, 2012

Amazing

So back in 2010 I did the taxes. I used turbotax via the bank. No problem. Got it all done and then decided to see what would happen if we claimed Audrie that year. It made a change, but not enough to ask her parents if we could claim her. They would get the earned income credit, so it was better for them. Took her back off mine and sent it off electronically. Didn't check. Didn't think anything of it. Printed my copy and put it away in a folder.
Fast forward to 2011. I again used turbotax via the bank and the first thing that happens is I get this notification. Seems they had a glitch in their system having to do with the EIC and removing dependents. If you took one off it took them all off. I go back and look and sure enough our child had been removed. It wanted to fix it for me, but I couldn't access that return online. So I started it by hand in increments of Audrie time and it just didn't get done.
Fast forward to almost now. I finally remembered that I still needed to do that. It didn't take too long and was pretty straightforward. Our child was worth a little over $400. Well worth my time to do it. Got it sent in and promptly forgot about it. Then we got notices in the mail and Dave was sure we were being audited. Nope just letting us know that our amended return had been processed and the money would be in hand soon. A couple weeks later the check came. Looked at the amount and went whoa. Larger. OOhh. They gave us interest. Amazing.

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