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DATA DUMP

I did the collection of tax data today.

It gets simpler every year.

Last year there was a lot of flotsam and jetsam as a result of the selling and buying of the house/condo transactions.

This year, none of that.

I am pleased to discover that we were able to cut our annual expenditures to just about half by moving. Maybe even a little better. And we are not living frugally by any means. More in the upper middle of the middle class life style.

We are still in the process of trying to secure joint return status for the three years plus that we have been domestic partners (marriage has nothing to do at the fed level).

It is still a vast mess within the IRS. Lost papers all that.

But we are patient and when that clears up we will be in even better shape on what we pay on what we "earn".

Earnings now are all Social Security and spinoff of our mandatory IRA annual withdrawal. That and income and interest on the nut. The market is as good as it has been for three years and we are back where we were when the financial collapse started. In those golden Bush years.

I only look at this shit once a year and this is it.

There are some minimal maintenance that has to be done during the year but this is the big look.

The ex-chequer is in pretty good shape.

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