Originally Posted by
Calypso
Don't even remind me of tax season. Last year, due to illness, I had to cash in a ROTH IRA and because I'm not fifty-nine and a half I had to pay a 10% penalty as well as all kinds of interest. I got slammed on federal AND state taxes and still had to pay the tax preparer as well.

Ick! That's certainly a very good reason to dread doing taxes! Are you
planning to file for an extension? We've never done that and I don't know
why I always put doing the taxes off as long as I do... it's always pretty
painless.
