Federal Retirees: Don't Get Bitten by the Estimated Tax Penalty

Sgt Kelli Mays, They suck, period. We're paying money back from last year because I received all of my savings from a company I worked for. It was six figures, and the company would only pay the whole amount instead of sending me monthly payments. So they took out almost 30K in income taxes. The end of the year rolls around and we took our stuff to a CPR we have used for years. She combined the monthly payments were were getting, and the balance of the entire sum, after taxes we already paid, and we ended up owing another 8K. We won't have to file this year. Anyway, I called the IRS last week to get an idea of how much more we had to pay to settle up with them. I called four phone numbers I was given. Each time I called one of the numbers I had to wait, then would be given another number to call. I'm on the phone like at least two hours, and I called the last number I was given. I went through all the fricken answers they wanted on the computer idiot you get when you first call anywhere now. I was finally transferred to to the department I was told, was the department I needed. A human answers right away, and I'm thinking, cool, I can finally get and answer. This after a total of three hours. I'm very hard headed. Anyway, I explain what I was calling about, and the girl tells me that I can't get an answer over the phone. I have to download a form off the fucking computer and mail it in, then some time over the next 4to 6 weeks I'll get an answer in the mail. I told that girl she could shove that form in a place the sun don't shine and the entire IRS system is totally F'd up, and I hung up. I was so pissed I was beside my myself. So, I get an email from the IRS wanting me to give an evaluation of how I was treated and did they answer all my questions. I just deleted it. I have another story but it would take too long to explain it. Besides, I gotta go take another chill pill after talking about this story. LOL