I’ll spare you the long, drawn out version but some details I have to divulge so you (the reader) isn’t lost in the fray.
Before Facebook made so many algorithm changes, I had a very lucrative business where I posted news articles on my website, pushed the link to around 3.5 million followers, and watched the money roll in. Business was great. I averaged anywhere from $18,000 - $30,000 per month in revenue from advertisers and averaged around 14 million page views per month.
In July of last year, Facebook made some major changes and it killed the reach of my pages. I mean, I went from hundreds of thousands of page views per day down to less than 100,000. This is all part of Facebook’s pay-to-play strategy for business pages. Want your content to be seen? Get ready to pay up in huge chunks, but don’t expect to make any return on your investment and you’ll be lucky to break even.
I had been with my wife going on 10 years. We had a great marriage, or so I and everyone else thought. She managed our finances and we never had a problem.
Well, lo and behold, when the money ran out back in August 2017, that’s when she decided she was done with our marriage (or at least let me know) but not before telling me that she hadn’t saved a dime and tax returns haven’t been filed since 2015.
Everytime I asked her if she was putting money aside to pay taxes, she would say that she had everything under control and to let her handle it. I trusted her...albeit far too much it would seem.
In 2015 and 2016 I made somewhere around $220,000 each year. Last year, probably around $125,000.
In December I had a major meltdown and attempted suicide. I swallowed 52 of the 20mg Adderall pills I was prescribed for A.D.D. with the hope that it would put me in coma. That didn’t happen. What DID happen is I spent a night in the ER and the medication had me so hopped up that I couldn’t sleep for 40 hours straight. Following a night in the ER, I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a week.
Assets? It would be great if I had some.
Since September I have sold nearly everything I own to survive and pay bills. I’ve been living with family until 3-4 weeks ago when I moved down to Houston and took a job as a quality inspector. I’m working a $23/hr job and there is no way in hell I will ever be able to pay that kind of money she left me owing the IRS. I’m a 40-year-old man with barely more than the clothes on his back and renting a bedroom in a stranger’s home for $625/mo.
I plan to speak with the IRS in the coming week and tell them everything. Aside from that, I don’t have the slightest idea of what I’m going to do.
What in God’s name am I to do at this point?
Submitted February 11, 2018 at 08:38AM by N3TD3ViL http://ift.tt/2BPxQDr
