Simple Frustrations

Things are just harder when dealing with the government.  I keep the books for Bob's business.  He does consulting work.  Keeping the billing and paying expenses covers my main responsibilities.  He does take a regular paycheck so I handle those entries.

Making state and federal payments of the withholding plus social security and medicare were once quite easy.  Our bank would take federal deposits and his withholding due the state of Illinois was small enough that we remitted with the quarterly reports.

Now the governments want electronic payments.  Usually no big problem but the state of Illinois has changed their website and I continue to struggle to find the right path to submit our info.  Choosing 'business' is not a complete path.  I have to find IL-501 payments.  I keep notes in the payroll file to help me.

The one thing business does that the governments don't seem to have the capability to do is auto tab after a field is filled in.  Phone number is a good example.  A business site would automatically tab to the next box.  I type in our 3 digit area code and the system jumps to the next box to receive the next 3 digits and then the 4 digit.  Never on the government sites.

Also the governments when asking for dollar amounts insist that the two zeros be in place following the dollar amount.  Business would assume '425.' meant $425.00.  Not the government.  Bob's withholding is rounded to the nearest whole number to make life easier for me.  The IRS does not recognize the whole numbers only.  I have to fill in the zeros.

Life is good.  Small frustrations just need to be vented.  Thank you for listening.

'til later