Blarg. I hear you, being self employed sucks during tax time. Everyone's always talking about what they're going to do with their refund, and I'm over in the corner rocking myself because we owe $4k.
I'm a contract employee, so I have to pay my own taxes as well. We owed like $3K this year because I started working late in the year and so we didn't do any quarterly payments. Ick.
It makes me sad how much we're socking away out of my paycheck to make the quarterly payments. Hopefully that means we'll get a refund next year, or at least don't owe, but damn, it's no fun when so much of your paycheck just vanishes.