TAXES!!!!!

I am so......rrrrrrrrrrrrrr....annoyed!

We just received a letter stating;

"Assessment issued to adjust 2007 School Property prebate to increase 2006 Household Income by Business Income, Line hm, of $9208.00.   Business Losses cannot be netted out for Household Income purposes. "

Attached was a bill for$600.59.  The third attached sheet listed HS-122 as filed prebate at $2,236.00 ~ as adjusted $1,774.00 equalling a change of $-462.00

At first I was overwhelmed by the wording trying to figure where I go from here.  There were statements of; "You have the right to appeal this assessment within 60 days." and "We urge you to pay this bill within 15 days to avoid accrual of any additional charges."

Oh, did I mention that we recieved three of these packets.  Each for a different year, each one with the opening statement holding 2 years in the paragraph just to confuse me.

I put it aside without studying too much last night.  I figured I would tackle it today with no distractions.  After reviewing more in depth and pulling out my tax paperwork, I went online to pull up HI-144 line h instructions.  It was clearly stated there that you could NOT take a loss on that line you had to enter "0".  Turbo Tax, the software I use, automatically took our two businesses (sugaring & Larry's normal job) and combined them.  It was clearly stated there that you could not do that.  So....as much as I hate to admit it....the state is right....we do owe money.

Now, since this is dating back as far as 2006, we also owe penalties and interest!  Bringing our grand total to $1238.15 owed to Department of Taxes. 

I posted my annoyance on Facebook and a friend informed me that we could respectfully requdst abatement of the penalties as we have been filing in good faith using an approved online tax-filing product.  So I did just that.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed hoping they comply.

Jeesh.......!