gahhhhhhhhhhh
It takes me one minute to write the coupon and have Quickbooks figure the payroll tax check and print it. One fricking minute!
The government is now requiring taxes to be paid online. I, of course, put off doing this but there's a possible 10% fine (of your tax bill) and the banks may no longer accept the coupons so as it's tax paying day I started the process.
First I finished the Kansas process I'd started four months ago and then ignored and continued to mail in the coupons and since they cashed the checks and never said 'stop doing this' I waited until today. That took only a few minutes--log in with PIN, set up the bank routing numbers, pay.
Then I went to enroll with the FEDs only to find out that, oops, it takes two weeks to get you a PIN (the state emailed it me ten minutes after I requested it). But then it told me that if we'd been using coupons for the last two years, we were pre-enrolled and they'd sent us the PIN.
Yeah...
An hour searching later...
They provided a number to call to get the PIN. At first, I kept getting busy signals. Couldn't even get to the press one for this menu. Finally I got through but none of the options were "if you lost your PIN press __* so I tried something else and stupidly hung up.
A half hour later and many more busy signals I got through and pushed zero for operator and then got put on hold while I was being transferred to customer service.
Let me tell you, the hold music is EXTREMELY ANNOYING AND LOUD. Luckily I have a speaker phone and I used that so I could do some actual work while I waited for thirty five minutes.
The one good thing was that the woman who answered was very friendly and helpful and I got the PIN and she told me what to do next which was to call to activate it and luckily that was all automated and I didn't have to get put on hold for another thirty five minutes.
Then I went back online to sign in and I kept having to put in the PIN and I had to get a password and then I had to figure out what payroll form I was using and it was confusing me and then I had to actually breakdown what was taxes, social security and medicare, and finally twenty minutes later I'd paid.
See first line of this post.
I have to do this every month. So happy. :P
Quickbooks will pay the federal one through its system--I'll try that next month--but not the State so I have to "pay" and then unclick the "print checks" to record a payment.
I hate the government.
Although they are giving me Monday off...
The government is now requiring taxes to be paid online. I, of course, put off doing this but there's a possible 10% fine (of your tax bill) and the banks may no longer accept the coupons so as it's tax paying day I started the process.
First I finished the Kansas process I'd started four months ago and then ignored and continued to mail in the coupons and since they cashed the checks and never said 'stop doing this' I waited until today. That took only a few minutes--log in with PIN, set up the bank routing numbers, pay.
Then I went to enroll with the FEDs only to find out that, oops, it takes two weeks to get you a PIN (the state emailed it me ten minutes after I requested it). But then it told me that if we'd been using coupons for the last two years, we were pre-enrolled and they'd sent us the PIN.
Yeah...
An hour searching later...
They provided a number to call to get the PIN. At first, I kept getting busy signals. Couldn't even get to the press one for this menu. Finally I got through but none of the options were "if you lost your PIN press __* so I tried something else and stupidly hung up.
A half hour later and many more busy signals I got through and pushed zero for operator and then got put on hold while I was being transferred to customer service.
Let me tell you, the hold music is EXTREMELY ANNOYING AND LOUD. Luckily I have a speaker phone and I used that so I could do some actual work while I waited for thirty five minutes.
The one good thing was that the woman who answered was very friendly and helpful and I got the PIN and she told me what to do next which was to call to activate it and luckily that was all automated and I didn't have to get put on hold for another thirty five minutes.
Then I went back online to sign in and I kept having to put in the PIN and I had to get a password and then I had to figure out what payroll form I was using and it was confusing me and then I had to actually breakdown what was taxes, social security and medicare, and finally twenty minutes later I'd paid.
See first line of this post.
I have to do this every month. So happy. :P
Quickbooks will pay the federal one through its system--I'll try that next month--but not the State so I have to "pay" and then unclick the "print checks" to record a payment.
I hate the government.
Although they are giving me Monday off...