anyone in the us get their 1200? (covid stimulus relief payment)

Weird, I’m pretty sure that I wrote a physical check for taxes last year because i didn’t want to make it easy for them, plus I remember really pondering the implications of writing FUCK MNUCHIN in the memo spot (I decided against it).

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

That fuckin website is still all *confused shrug*, mailbox is still empty, I'm never gonna see that shit.

Our deposit came through yesterday. My partner and I are incredibly lucky in that both of our jobs haven't been impacted & likely wont be (shes literally involved in manufacturing chemicals being used in covid vaccine research), so we just sent a big chunk of it to the local food bank.

My payment status is also "Not Available", even though Ifile every year (though not 2019 yet). I suspect I'm gonna have to work a bit to get my 1200

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

Woot! Down payment on a sweet '08 Toyota Corolla!

Maybe enough for some bitchin rims as well.

Oh yeah, that's the sweet Robin Leach action I was hopin' for.

Got mine on the 15th

Glad to see some of y'all are getting mad paid. Allow me to live vicariously through tales of yr newfound riches.

I was finally able to get a new desktop pc to replace my 10 year old relic. This thing's gonna croak any day.

Got it, used it to pay back my quixotic wedding fund.

Oh no wait, I used it to bet against the Oscars happening next year.

I get the status not available message too even though I definitely filed taxes for 2018.

same

I haven't lived in the usa for almost six years but I have to file american taxes every year anyway (because the usa is a bullshit country). am I gonna get this ca$h too? haven't filed 2019 taxes yet though (the deadlines are a lot different if you're not a current resident) so maybe I gotta do that first.

if you filed last year, yeah

yeah we have to file every year thanks to the great law that distinguishes the usa from like every other country in the world and makes all income of us citizens taxable by the usa, even if you've never lived in the usa

shame on you for not being a corporation

technically speaking, the eligibility for this "refundable tax credit" is based on your earnings in 2020, but they're advancing it to you using your 2019 income (or if you haven't filed, your 2018 income). but they've said if you get the stimulus this year and you technically shouldn't have been eligible based on 2020, they won't make you pay it back.

likewise if you find yourself ineligible this year (ie you made like 123,000 in 2019 when you filed), and then based on your 2020 income, you should have been (maybe you got laid off this year nad made like 50,000), you'll get the "refundable tax credit" of $1,200/$2,400 next year.

all income of us citizens taxable by the usa, even if you've never lived in the usa

you aren't eligible for foreign income exclusion? or do you make so much money that some of it is taxable? The foreign exclusion is pretty large

yeah my partner and I have yet to pass the exclusion mark. It is still definitely a PITA to file every year though

Euler is in France though, so the size of the exclusion might not seem so large compared to Canada (since it's in USD)

No I don’t make much money! We don’t have to pay taxes now, for that reason, but we do have to file each year, and if we started making bank then the USA would get a cut. Also we have to deal with FATCA too, so the USA knows how money I make in France.

so, you're annoyed that you have to file forms?

also fyi -- i can try and dig up the notice in question, but the IRS did say a week or so ago, that the stimulus payments aren't all coming at once, and they are paying the lower income people first, so if you aren't "in the system" yet, it could be that your income (from the most recent year filed, either 2018 or 2019) is on the higher end of the eligibility scale.

hmm. by most standards we are well-off but got it immediately. Could possibly be because of kids?

idk -- I haven't filed for 2019 yet, and I got my payment Wednesday, but I had direct deposit info from 2018 from a refund because I was super careful about paying enough in estimated payments so I wouldn't have to owe.

i make right under the pay rate that gets phased out, so I'm not sure why they paid me so early.

I did have two friends get paid just today.

I suspect direct deposit is a factor. I always get a paper check, so will probably have to wait until Trump personally signs however many millions he has piled up on his desk.

sarahel—-I guess yes? Forms are no fun! And I have a slew of them as a French resident. The USA is the only country that enforces a right to tax non-resident citizens on their foreign income. That’s bullshit. We have to repost everything financial to the USA government despite their having nothing to do with our lives (we have a USA bank still but receive no income there). For that reason I’d have expected that we wouldn’t get a USA stimulus check but it seems that we will.

IRS site says I'm getting my Trumpbucks on the 22nd, fuck yeah

Just in time to pay rent.

can I use my trump bucks to buy an obama phone

My mom FINALLY got her unemployment claim filed. Assuming it doesn't get comedy denied, she'll make more money in 4 months than she has in decades.

Which is good cos otherwise I'll have to pay her rent until social security arrives, and the medical bills

"According to information that we have on file, we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time."
same as it's been

(checks watch again, taps toe impatiently)

Thanks, Obama.

Progress! Today when I went to the IRS page, instead of status not available, it asked me for my tax return and bank routing info. Now the payment should be coming although I don't have a date yet. I see the tool had maintenance last night, I'm wondering if that was a factor in the change.

Cool, site's finally working for me, too. Now I just have to dig my '18 tax materials out of whatever the hell box they're in. Probably get the check before I find them, honestly.

Okay, lol, I realized I could get the info I needed from the IRS site, went that route, entered everything into the seemingly-functional stimulus portal...aaaaaaand could not be completed due to technical difficulties. Fuck off.

trumpoleans

trumpoolah

trumpero

So excited for papa Trump to open his big glorious wallet for me

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had exactly the same experience as OL

They haven't fixed the zero filer error yet (if you owe/were refunded $0), maybe after the scheduled updates this weekend.

yeah, that's what got me.

Me too.

How could the IRS ever have been expected to account for something like this, I ask you.

we should privatize it, just like the post office -- give their powers to a more efficient, competent private corporation.

Run the IRS like a business!

For today only, get 25% off your taxes if you file today.

Also, if you file today, we will throw in a free subscription to Rolling Stone!

finally I can get my tax refund in the form of Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards