I paid our taxes and left about $30.00 in our checking account, so when I went to the pharmacy today to pick up some cough syrup and albuterol (allergy seaons), I pulled my Visa card out assuming I would have to charge it. The cough syrup was the good prescription kind!
Anyway I just finish chatting about taxes with the clerk when she rings me up.... $15.43 total. Whaaat??? I think I have a $20.00 bill in my purse. Sure enough I did. I was thrilled to not have to put that on my Visa. DH get paid this week, so we will be fine.
The albuterol was a $10.00 copay and the cough syrup was $5.43 generic for Mytussin. I guess I am used to my Advair inhaler, which is about $75.00 even being run through my insurance (no generic yet).
I spent some time today shredding old tax documents from 1999-2001 and organizing the actual returns, filing away 2006 with supporting documents.
Dinner was Carnitas DH made yesterday. Still plenty of leftovers for tomorrow too.
DH bought a bag of onions at Costco today (he had to get stuff for work) for 99 cents a pound, 10 pounds for $9.99. He had just paid $1.58 a pound at Winco this weekend and we used the one he bought. When did onions get so expensive?
A Nice Pharmacy Surprise
April 17th, 2007 at 03:14 am
April 17th, 2007 at 12:21 pm 1176812480
1. Have you asked your doctor for Advair samples? He/she may have free samples to help you out. The sample packs only have 28 doses instead of 60 but free is free.
2. For future reference, you should keep tax documents for 7 years, so it was probably a little premature to shred your 2001 stuff.
April 17th, 2007 at 03:08 pm 1176822499
2. And no we don't have to save tax documents for 7 years, only 3 according to our accountant. So theoretically I could have shred another year! I think that was the old rule, the IRS can only audit I thought for 3 years back.
Just found this on a search of a net, a California Law Web site:
[i]Under normal circumstances, the IRS may not audit tax returns filed more than three years ago. For example, the deadline for the IRS to audit a 1995 tax return, filed by April 15, 1996, is April 15, 1999. Under certain circumstances, the three-year limit is extended. The IRS can demand records as far back as six years if an audit reveals that the amount of income the taxpayer failed to report on his or her latest return exceeds by 25 percent or more the income reported. Also, the IRS has no time limit if the taxpayer fails to file a return or if it determines that the taxpayer deliberately filed a false or fraudulent return.
IRS auditors almost always want to see financial records that relate to the return they are examining. This raises a commonly asked question: How long should a taxpayer keep records relating to income tax filings? The answer is generally three-and-a-half years, because after that time, the IRS typically will not audit the taxpayer, as described above. A taxpayer should keep financial documents longer than three-and-a-half years if they might affect future returns. For example, a person should keep records of stock purchases until the stocks are sold, because profit or loss after the sale must be determined and reported on the next income tax return.
April 17th, 2007 at 04:44 pm 1176828293
April 18th, 2007 at 02:37 am 1176863830
Homebody, glad to hear about the nice pharmacy surprise
April 18th, 2007 at 02:12 pm 1176905566
House, are you talking Imitrex? I used it when it first came out in injection form, but it stopped working, then the pills gave me rebound heaadaches, so I gave up and went back to pain pills and muscle relaxants. Luckily the headaches have gone from 2-3 times a month to once very 6 weeks or more. I am hoping the headaches leave entirely once I am through menopause, which is what happened to my mother.