It’s hard budgeting for my tax bill because I never seem to cut even with the contract gigs I complete from week to week.
A lot of my friends look forward to their incoming tax refunds at the beginning of the year, but I’m constantly wondering if I’ll have a bill such as I had the year prior.
Then it requires a few weeks of finding the craziest ways to try to fund a few more weeks of my survival without eating nothing but ramen noodles for every single meal. Otherwise I risk late fees on my tax payments, and therefore throwing myself and others further and further behind to the point where I can’t get caught up. I truly could benefit from an accountant who could make better financial decisions throughout the year and withhold the correct amount of tax currency every week so there are no major discrepancies when it comes time to file taxes. Taxes are not the only expenses that I have to budget for, as my medical marijuana patient status is basically constantly hanging in the balance. Unless I pay the state $79 every year, I will lose my health-earned privilege of shopping at a legal medical marijuana dispensary. While some cannabis stores around here offer discounts to recoup the $79 that is lost to the state, my favorite cannabis dispensary in town does not offer this kind of discount. I don’t want to shop at an inferior dispensary just to be able to recoup my expenses to maintain my medical marijuana card. It’s not hard, honestly, getting a medical marijuana card as long as you can afford the extra currency you pay to the state on top of the currency paid to the medical professional.