― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't see how I can possibly owe you two grand. I'm sure there are people who make twice as much as me who don't owe fuck.
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I r queen of last minute taxes.
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 14 April 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
suckahs :-P
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― kephm, Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, you wind up owing money this way:
if you're married, and you mark "married filing jointly" on your withholding forms at work, they withhold LESS money from your check than they would if you marked "single." this is because the tax system (wrongly, in almost all cases) assumes that if you're married and filing jointly, you're supporting your wife. If both people are working, you have to go through the two-earner, two job worksheet to find out what the difference is b/w what they'll withhold and how much taxes you will actually owe. This is almost always short though for some reason. (note: this is all only true for Federal. State, which is what I owe, doesn't bother to give you a nice worksheet to figure this out. They just say "fuck you", give you no tools to find out how much you owe, and then charge you when you're short. This is called "California is broke and squeezing you for money, bitches.").
If your income fluctuates from month to month because of overtime or bonuses or something, then God help you.
Being married sucks for taxes because of this, and also, this: say you make 70k. Say your spouse make 40k. If you're single, you pay the tax rate for someone making 70k, and your spouse would pay the rate for someone making 40k. But if you're married, you pay the rate for ONE income making 110k. Which is a higher percentage than the others. This means you pay more taxes when you're married than single people making the same money. This is called the marriage penalty and everyone thinks that they got rid of it last year. They did, but only for very low income people. The rest of the country (ie: the middle class) gets fucked.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
thankfully i make little enuf that this isn't massive chunks of change we're talking about yet.
grrr.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
also how fucked up is mass in that you get taxed MORE (and w/o most deductions, no less!) on out-of-state "investment"!? they only let you take out special in-state deductions for it, insteada the gamut, so my education deduction (which is xo!@%$@#ing huge) does no good.
[on the health insurance tip -- i need to figure out how to make sure the plan is "through" the business or whatever. yeah -- a tax atty could actually have probably saved me $ this year. next time round...]
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― the krza (krza), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― the krza (krza), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
now, if you fuXors only had money i could make a mint representing yer asses come audit time :-)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― the krza (krza), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
that said, yeah if you are self-employed and have business expenses you stand a better chance than if you are just self-employed and have no expenses. also, anything having to do w/ "flow-through entities" (basically, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations) get a closer look (b/c of well-publicized instances of outright fraud wr2 such entities).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link
shit, that sucks! Nothing with the IRS is ever quick & easy, tho
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:01 (one week ago) link
they haven't met a guy with infinite patience to be annoying like me before
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:20 (one week ago) link
You will end up getting an IP PIN that they will send you each year until you die
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:35 (one week ago) link
bleh.
looks like the guy got deactivated eons ago but may have actually been using my DoorDash account. cunning.
FTC report and IRS ID theft report filed electronically, just gotta respond to the CP2000 now.
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:38 (one week ago) link
jeeeeezus
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:11 (one week ago) link
Doordash replied with what seems like a form letter to indicate yes it was fraud and they deactivated the account. apparently this happens so much at their great, well-run company that they already have a template for it.
welp that'll make my claim with IRS easier.
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:54 (one week ago) link