What if I owed taxes in 2014 and uh forgot to file?
Then I procrastinated and never filed because of anxiety over the first bit.
For the next 9 years.
What if I owed taxes in 2014 and uh forgot to file?
Then I procrastinated and never filed because of anxiety over the first bit.
For the next 9 years.
Go to a reputable tax place and let them handle it. It will be much easier than you think and the anxiety will just melt away.
Good advice, but I should elaborate I meant what if you never filed for the next 9 years. I also kind of suspect some fuckery on my former employer since I filed the same as always and my income didn't increase much at all.
Motherfuckers turned out to be shady as hell.
Hmm my thinking was based on the idea of a person not filing any taxes for nine years straight, which can totally get sorted out. It's not fun or anything, but you can also get a tax prep place / an accountant to do all of the thinking for you, which is worth a lot when something is making you anxious.
Yeah that's what another local comrade that just got back to me basically said. So yeah all this is making me less terrified.
I'm just trying to avoid having my bank account drained or becoming homeless.
Cuz that would probably mean losing my job too and then just being totally completely fucked.
Like I said this is a big dumb idiot moment.
It won't be that dangerous, no need to worry. In the worst case scenario they'll tell you some number and you'll pay it back over time. The IRS wants to get paid more than they want to emiserate.
Also I know how anxiety and avoidance (and other things) can make things like this happen. It's pretty common as a category of thing that people do. The dumb thing in this situation is a tax system that already knows what you owe but makes you actively jump through hoops to pay taxes just so some tax prep companies can collect rent off of workers.