Taxes uggh

 I started doing m taxes in Turbo tax t for years, no problem. I would sign in with my password.

They put up all I had filed before and I would just change the numbers.

They would file electronically and voila, done in three hours.

But now everything has changed.

Signing in requires lots of stuff to verify it is you. Trying to figure out how to do that took me two hours.

I have to put in all the details, from scratch, which is a hassle;  

But the list kept circling around, and I had to answer the same questions/details over and over again about my overseas income.

If you live overseas, and make over 100 thousand dollars a year, you have to pay taxes. But smaller amounts are supposed to be reported to the IRS with a different form that is not included on your tax report but you don't have to pay taxes on them.

Yes I have overseas bank accounts with tiny amounts of interest income. and my granddaughter has income from rent that my husband gifted her but since she was underage, it was put in my name until I die. But we use it for her college expenses.

 But the main hassle is the W 2 forms. They kept insisting I answer questions about a w2 that reports income from ebay or jobs. Well I don't sell on ebay and haven't made money blogging in the last ten years, but never mind: Since I won't fill out that form, I can't file electronically.

Bummer.

Sigh.

In other news, the British lady who stayed here a few days after her flights via Qatar were canceled, has found a flight via Vancouver to go home. It is not until next week, so she is now staying with other friends til then.