I've never had to pay.

Technically, you're not getting extra income. It's your income, it just got diverted before it got to you.

Personally, I'm pretty annoyed with how much I get taxed since moving to CA.

Oooh... heard y'all will be getting an IOU from the state instead of $$ this year... I sent $337 to the Great State of Mississippi. And almost $3 k to Uncle Sam.

I don't know about that. How is getting a 5 grand refund after having paid out less than 1 grand constitute "your income?"

How's that work? I never get large returns. Largest for me was .. this year, actually. $450 from Fed, $115 from state.

Do you have kids? Everyone I know that has kids gets these thousand dollar returns.

I inferred from your post that you had these deductions. Forgive my infernal inferences. I don't have the deducts, either. Sometimes people forget to look at total tax liability. I've heard "but but I paid 1300 last year." [I used to verify reporting of taxes on FAFSA at old job and I would have to explain that they got 5000 back: 1300 plus 3700 (just pulling numbers out of the air, here.)]

Also, I've always been taught not to use taxes as a savings account, so I do end up paying because I don't have as much withheld. However, sometimes I think about doing that differently: usually every April. :p

Anyway, I actually usually do have them done by now, just not sent in...guess what? I can't find my freaking W2s. Arghhhhhhh.

We were burned hugely one year, so I am always very nervous that the Big Bill from U. Sam will show up again. Hasn't happened - indeed, I'm usually surprised by the amount of our refunds. It's difficult to estimate because we move from state to state so that complicates things. This year we are getting a very large refund. Who wants to be my friend now? :p

ME ME! Where are we having dinner? :)

Japan, for sushi - are you up traveling first class, too? Or maybe NYC. And there's good food in St. Louis and Chicago, too.

Just filed my extension.

They raped us the year we got married. I had always looked at the charts up until then and saw that married people paid less in tax, but it didn't occur to me that I was only looking at the line for my single income, and that when we got married we had to add our incomes together and read the line in that part of the table. It bumped us up into a higher tax bracket, and even though we dutifully reported our filing status change to our employers, we got married late in the year, and those couple of months weren't enough to withhold what we owed.

It wasn't until we bought a house and had two kids that the federal taxes went way way way down.

Ours still aren't done. We went out to dinner, then came home and watched Jeopardy and House last night. Our priorities are really fucked up. :)

I am not believing this. E-filed my tax returns on Saturday; went to the P.O. to mail the checks; opened my P.O. Box and what was in there? Another 1099 form !!!

:thud:

BTW Jill, I made the frikadeller last night - I don't think there are any left! Very well recieved, thanks for the recipe. :)

We were burned on a short-sell for our VA financed house in NY. Tried for years to sell it but no luck. I had no idea the difference in money between what was owed on the house, and what the house sold for, would count as income to us. Nobody offered that info and we didn't know to ask.
We did marry early in the year for no particular reason. At least that worked out good for us!

Okay, I just filed mine online with Turbotax. Took me an hour.

More painful than the surgery! Yikes--I owe thousands of dollars. Probably should have filed estimated returns this year. ick.

But at least it's done. I got in trouble with the IRS once--NEVER AGAIN!

I use turbotax also and have calculated mine about 20x - I still cannot believe I owe what it says. I am now destitute. All my savings will be erased. Most depressed.