I had a nice big letter from the I.R.S. in the mail today. I was guessing it wasn’t my stimulus check, since I knew I made too much money to receive one of those. At first I thought, “Oh, No! I’m being audited!”. Well, it wasn’t that bad, but, still, I don’t know if you ever get a letter from the I.R.S. that’s good. This one says I owed them some money. See, I forgot that last year I received money from my Aunt’s estate, not some gigantic inheritance, but still, it was money that should be considered income. I totally forgot about that, had filed it away, and I never put it in my tax return. Now I receive the letter saying I owe them $1,500. I guess this is when it’s handy that I had started an “emergency fund”, unfortunately it currently has $1,200 in it, started the fund not too long ago; so, while it will help cover this unexpected expense, it puts me back at square one.

Tags: taxes, irs