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[featherynscale]

Well, today is not off to much of a start. I reexamined the tax notice the state sent me and discovered that I was supposed to file a protest on or before *July 10*, not August 10. Dammit. Now apparently I will have to pay Missouri $750 for my Kansas state unemployment, upon which I have already paid taxes to Kansas. Dammit dammit dammit. Maybe I'll put the protest form in the mail anyway and see if they'll take it.

EDIT: And I'm going to need another unbudgeted $500 to fulfill a commitment I hadn't planned on having to fulfill in this particular way at this particular time. Anybody got any grand ideas about where I can come up with an extra $1200 over the next month and a half? Sheesh.

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[cynthiaweb.livejournal.com]

I have had my share of interesting times with Missouri income tax. Whether you missed the deadline for the protest may really be irrelevant. If I recall correctly, protest in this situation does not mean what you would think. What I needed to do was file an amended tax return. It sounds like you didn't get credit for paying taxes to Kansas. Did you file a return with Missouri for that year at all? If not, you probably just need to file a return to get credit for paying your taxes to Kansas. Also you have to really read the fine print on the resident/nonresident status on the tax forms and choose wisely. Even if you do end up owing money, you just have to make a payment plan with them. You end up paying more in interest, but what else is new? Seriously, the game is not over yet!