Hooray! Our taxes are done! Our accountant is e-filing them today and I don't have to think about it for another year.
This year was quite different than my pre-marriage tax filing. First, Jon is technically self-employed and has a million write-offs accumulating through the year. Therefore, he uses an accountant to make sure he's getting all appropriate deductions, and that all his write-offs are on the up-and-up. I previously used the 1040-EZ and it took me all of 10 minutes to do my taxes. His are much more complicated. He's been using the same accountant for the last 3 or 4 years and she is very trusted. We got all our tax information to her over a month ago, but then realized we didn't have the right tax information from Jon's work. His boss thought he didn't have to provide any official information for some reason. Anyway, it got figured out and we had to wait for the appropriate filing information. But then Jon's boss had a situation with his accountant and didn't get Jon's tax information to us until YESTERDAY. Not by February, which I'm pretty sure is required by law. Sheesh.
Water under the bridge, though, as all is well and we're filing in time and nothing bad happened. Turns out marriage agrees with our tax filing situation and we're getting a refund. Nothing enormous, but a nice little addition to the Maternity Leave Savings Fund I've got going on. It might even buy me an extra week of leave. Maybe. I'd really prefer 10 weeks off after having the baby, but for now we can only afford about 8. Stupid American system of no mandatory paid maternity leave. I should live in Sweden or something.
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