Dear Folks, For those of you who've filled out your tax returns and have put that all behind you, you're permitted to sit back and gloat. With me, however, I realized that I've procrastinated almost to the deadline to send my returns in. Frankly, I wasn't all that worried about filling in my returns. After all I had all of the figures at hand. Today I really pleased myself that I had gathered the forms and figures and started off the way I always have over the years and filled in the blanks. After all, all that I have to declare as wages is my meager W-2 form in my capacity of Town of Porter Historian, then list the interest from my bank and credit union and the dividends I've been receiving. I then add the amount of my Navy pension (taxable) and enter my Social Security income (non-taxable). But that's where I got bogged down. As usual, you have to add lines up and subtract line 43 from 42 (or some such) and insert the number of excemptions (over 65 years old), subtract the deduction from another line, figure out the tax on whatever figure you come up with, enter the withholding tax you've already paid, subtract that from the above figure and you eventually come up with a figure that you'll either have to write out a check for or request a refund. By the time I felt I'd done my best, my brain was fried. It took me an entire hour to go through the agony but at least I know that tomorrow it'll be a pretty easy job to fill out my NY State tax. There's no doubt but what it'll be a lead-pipe cinch. I swear that if it weren't for procrastination, I'd never send in an income tax return! vee