Grr - taxes filed, but my payable has an exta $3.90 added on.
I remember seeing this last year, where it claimed I paid something late, while their own payment records showed I was many days early. To my complaints then I was told it would go away. :(
So do I bother to try and track it down and spend hours on the phone again, or do I just pay the $4 Bureaucratic Ineptitude Tax and be done with it?
I just filed my tax return and paid the amount owing too, five days before the due date.
Tax office told me they assume I probably won't pay until oh, say… (wet finger in the wind) maybe May 6. They calculate an arrears interest charge for then and add it to my tab.
On phone they asked: "Oh you didn't pay that did you? It'll just go away when we settle the account."
They pre-charge a late fee before anything is late.
I've seen a cryptic thing on the gov site saying the filing deadline is June15 for households with self-employed members, yet it says payments are due April 30.
Confusing - we need to pay by Apr30, but filing is not due until June15? You'd have to work thru your return to figure out what you owe anyway, so what good is extra time if you had to do that work already.
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