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Are you using an accountant, ai lien? I somehow ended up owing over a grand because I just cashed that $300 check Shrubya threw at us during 9/11. Apparently, that was supposed to be reported on the return, and I got hit hard.

Anyway, I carry all of my delicate financial information to a woman who has an office off of MacArthur down by Starlite, next door to a liquor store. She's got me hundreds of dollars back from the IRS and the state, and she charges me like a hundred bucks to do it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Doers she give you dog biscuits?

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Just mints.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I need to deduct gas mileage and cell phone usage.

Are job-hunting expenses also allowed to deducted?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 27 January 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

hooray!

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

p.p. i had the h&r b1ock do it for me after i did them myself. see, i thought i was doing it wrong wrong wrong since my math said that i OWED. then i had them do it and it turns out that i still owe. but $1 less than i figured. i haven't been this fuxxing cussy in awhile. insert current administration anger rant right here.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

there is no way you had to owe $1000 on $300.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

It was very complicated, kyle. Let me do my own taxes again, and I could find a way to owe a million.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Who brought their 1040 to work today, just in case ILX gets dull?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

haha HERE!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew there was something I liked about you!

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone tried to deduct their phone bill yet? Apparently, there's a one-time deduction of fifty bucks this year because the IRS was taking taxes based on an outdated law from the Spanish-American War or something. I wish I had more information, but I heard about it too late anyway.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

turbo tax asked automatically. I think it was $30 for me.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a $30 deduction, yes.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

it is based on whether or not you had a long-distance service provider during the past x years (i forget the exact time frame)

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Who brought their 1040 to work today, just in case ILX gets dull?

guilty

― sleep, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Did mine during lunch.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Did mine on Sunday. Was puzzled at the long distance hash but anyway.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I happily dropped my check in the mail last weekend.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Do some of you still use paper forms? why?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not paying them until the very last minute. Thank you Washington DC for having some bizarro holiday on 4/16.

― Jaq, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

federal deadline is extended until 4/17 anyway.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

which is perhaps what you meant. duh.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I got my Maryland refund check yesterday. 45 bucks!

― Brent, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Do some of you still use paper forms? why?

The romance.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I filed electronically about a month ago, actually. The check I sent was the remainder I needed to send of my 1st Quarter estimated tax after my refund was applied.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you Washington DC for having some bizarro holiday on 4/16.

hey that's my birthday okay? fuck you!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(not really fuck you just ha ha)

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, thanks for that then Tombot and have a happy bizarro DC holiday birthday:)

I use the paper forms when I have to pay. They only have to be postmarked on the due date, and then the check can take its sweet time through the mail system.

― Jaq, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

paying would suck. . .I've only ever had to pay when I lived in NY and had to pay state taxes (none in TX). But then I never get these fuck-off huge refunds either so it all balances out.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I did too much independent consulting last year and couldn't knock it out with enough biz expense, so had to pay. Also, no more dependents.

Actually, I'd rather pay a bit than let the government use my $ for free all year long when I could be using it myself.

― Jaq, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm getting more back this year than ever! I'm guessing the interest I pay on student loans and a Home Equity loan are the reason (?)

also, TN having no state income tax, I love you. But I suspect I more than make up for that with my soul-crushingly high property taxes,

― will, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

We make up for it with our soul-crushingly awful public schools.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Washington State makes up for it with consumer-numbing sales tax and shockingly high car tags (in certain counties).

― Jaq, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, inbox empty, I'm gonna start ...

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

So, Line 8a ... I got #31 interest on my (non_roth) IRA statement. No Form 1099, just a bank statement. Not taxable?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

There were 2 or 3 years in the past few that I didn't file (partly out of being irresponsible, partly because I was going to school and working part time and barely made any money), so this year I finally hunkered down and took my stuff to H&R Block. I haven't brought up doing back taxes for those years I missed (I'm pretty curious how that turned out for Matos, it sounds intimidating but I should probably just go through with it one of these days), but things seem to be turning off well. I'm getting some money back from the state, but I apparently owe the federal gov't exactly one dollar, and the lady doing my taxes could barely contain her laughter about that. She's telling me if I just give a list of expenses incurred for freelancing, even without receipts, I can work it out to my advantage, so I just gave them a big list of CDs I reviewed and estimated the cost.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, forget it: "Interest on a traditional IRA is tax deferred."

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I filed for phone tax credit & GOT it despite not owning a phone for 3 years (to enhance my "barnfolk" image). Haha, $30 ist mine! Like they're going to go through 200 million tax forms and make sure everyone met the phone-use requirements.

― Abbott, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I filed back in late Jan. & got my refund a few weeks ago. My dad is an accountant---he taught me the basic ropes as a teen and I can always call him for questions. That is abt the only ++bonus++ of our daddy-daughter dealie.

― Abbott, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone else remember this Line 26 deduction from previous years? $3300 x yr exemptions? I only remeber the standard deduction.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, I don't remember line numbers and shit.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm talking principally to the 2 (or more) other ppl who have the form with them.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

done! I owe feds $60. Less than usual.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Dr. Morbius, I think that exemption value used to be rolled into the standard deduction for single and marrieds and you only got extra for other dependents. They probably separated it out as a brilliant marketing move, so you think you're getting more.

― Jaq, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, as I have the same pittance check to write as always, it's all the same.

Now dumbass me has to get the correct state form.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i owed, i paid, i dealt with it.

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I owe the Feds $80.07. Haven't tackled NY State yet. Hopefully I will be due $80.07 and all that will be lost is everyone's time.

― Virginia Plain, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link

Doing ours myself this year. Man, it's a lot more of a bitch now than it used to be - joint filing where my wife works in ny but we live in nj. Itemized deductions didn't turn out to be larger than standard so that simplifies things a bit but I'm still trying to figure out the multi-state thing.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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