It’s hard budgeting for my tax bill every year because I never seem to break even with the various contract gigs I complete from month to month.
A lot of my friends look forward to their tax refunds at the beginning of the year, but I’m constantly wondering if I’ll have a bill like I had the year prior.
Then it requires a few months of finding the craziest ways to fund a few more months of my survival without eating nothing but ramen noodles for every meal. Otherwise I risk late fees on my tax payments, thus throwing me further and further behind to the point where I can’t seem to stay caught up. I definitely could benefit from an accountant who could make better financial decisions for me throughout the year and withhold the proper amount of tax money every month so there are no discrepancies when it comes time to file taxes. Taxes are not the only yearly expenses that I have to budget for, as my medical marijuana patient status is always hanging in the balance. Unless I pay the state $75 every year, I will lose my privilege of shopping at a legal medical marijuana dispensary. While some cannabis stores offer discounts to recoup the $75 that is lost to the state, my favorite cannabis dispensary does not offer this kind of discount. I don’t want to shop at an inferior dispensary just to recoup my expenses to maintain my medical marijuana card. It’s not hard getting a medical marijuana card as long as you can afford the money you pay to the state on top of the money paid to the cannabis doctor.