I was finally able to file my taxes. I even took notes this time, because every year, I always feel a bit fuzzy about how I managed to file my taxes from last year. I just don't do this stuff often enough.
Anyways, through some weird insurance marketplace situation, it turns out that I ended up owing the IRS $10. Equally amusing, they immediately accepted my federal tax return filing for said $10. I don't recall my filing being accepted this quickly when they owed ME money!
In other news, we're getting snow again. However, I did do some shopping earlier, so I am prepared and am not planning to leave the house anytime soon.
January 31st, 2026 at 08:48 pm 1769892482
I'm still waiting on my brokerage account statement, which won't be available until 2/13, before I can file. [That's the downside of a taxable brokerage account. While retirement accounts, which issue 1099-Rs, send them out in mid-January, brokerage accounts have longer, and also send them out in "waves" depending on the complexity of the investments in the account. If you have funds where accountants need to review to determine whether dividends are "qualified" or "non-qualified" or even could be classified as "nondividend distributions" (by which they mean "return of capital" = return of your own original contribution and therefore not taxable), those take a long time to review and may even be subject to corrections. What I've noticed is that if an account receives a corrected 1099-B one year, they are likely to get corrected 1099-Bs in other years, so I suggest to clients that they wait until the correction cycles have been completed by the end of February before they file. The big firms usually have 3 waves of 1099-Bs, mid-January, early February, and late February.
February 1st, 2026 at 06:15 am 1769926526
February 1st, 2026 at 03:30 pm 1769959816
But that’s OK. It’s not like I am in a rush to get my taxes accepted, so long as they do accept it.
February 1st, 2026 at 11:16 pm 1769987802
February 2nd, 2026 at 08:12 pm 1770063152
February 3rd, 2026 at 05:07 pm 1770138431
LAL: $10 is honestly good yeah. I prefer simplicity personally, so I just aim for $0 in my taxes every year.
February 5th, 2026 at 03:20 pm 1770304846
DH has been adding stuff to our Turbo Tax, but we have to wait for a tax form to come in the middle of this month before we can actually sit down and do our taxes together. But like you, we are always glad when it is over, filed, and "accepted."