it seems I may have filed a tax return last year withiout realizing that I was doing so. on the one hand, this is good. it means that I did not dodge the irs for a year, as I had thought. however, I also never recieved a refund, nor did I ever pay the taxes that I owed to new york state, or recieve a bill for them. the things is, I completed the return through turbotax's online program, found out that I owed new york $200+ (which would have pretty much eaten up the $335 refund I was due), and promptly filed an extension. I then forgot about it, and never filed, or so I thought. now, being that it's time to file 2007 taxes and I am in a foreign country and I don't even know where my w2s were sent, I figure that it's time to tackle all of these things. so I sign in to turbotax, thinking that I will at least go ahead and file my 2006 return. when I pull up the pdf file and read through it, it appears that I did indeed file the return. but when I go to the irs site to check the status (since I never recieved a check), it says "we cannot provide any information about this return." not that they don't have it, just that they can't tell me if a check was ever mailed or where it was mailed or anything. so I suppose I am going to have to buy a calling card and waste all of the minutes sitting on the phone listening to the irs hold music. either that or just hope that perhaps new york state confiscated my federal refund and that's why I never recieved a check. I don't know. and then there's the question of how to deal with my 2007 taxes. my current plan is to email steve (strand payroll guru) when I get his email address and ask him if he can send me a copy of my w2s. but it would sure be nice, before I file another return, to know what actually happened to my one from last year.