Fixed it.

Tax things and bookkeeping things are some of the details that I had never thought about before I suddenly became my own company, and then, when I had to deal with them, they were quite the scary thing for me. It became much better after a while, and with the discovery of a relatively easy-to-use, but still very professional, bookkeeping programme that does not cost an arm and a leg each year.

Meanwhile it has become more or less routine to do the bureaucracy stuff regularly. And then, every quarter year, I have to take care of tax stuff - one of the inevitable things when you have your own company (even if it's a tiny one). Which means I have to sit down and take care of the bookkeeping that has not yet been taken care of, make sure all the numbers tally up, and then file the report and send the money owed to the state.

Which, you guessed is, was part of the things I did today - and this time around, it included checking a stack of past entries to find the elusive mistake that had snuck in somewhere. I used to think that it's not hard to type off numbers correctly, especially not if you have a habit of double-checking them, but it turns out that at some places, I had clicked a wrong button (and I had actually mis-typed at another point, so the issue had to be fixed in more than one place).

So there you are - the exciting daily (or quarterly) things in my life! Though in this case, I prefer non-excitement quite a bit above this kind of interesting.

I am, now, very happy that I finally managed to find it, and that I have now fixed it, and consequently things feel much, much better. Since I discovered that the numbers must be amiss a few days ago, this has sort of irked me continuously - after all, mistakes in book-keeping are a Bad Thing (TM). Now my tax stuff can be finished and filed and sent off as it needs to, and I'll be a happy woman with nicely corresponding numbers again!