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View Poll Results: Have you done your taxes?
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Taxes? What are taxes?!?
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Yes, and I already got my refund.
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44.85% |
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Yes, but waiting on my refund.
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Refund? What is a refund?!?
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No, but I have all my paperwork together.
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16.91% |
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No, I'll start getting it ready the morning of April 18.
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03/23/11, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Bel Aire, KS
Posts: 3,547
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We get an average of $4-5k back each year due to kids. If we didn't have the kids..we would get back maybe $500. We have been using the refunds towards house improvements this year because we're hoping to eventually sell it.
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You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
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03/23/11, 11:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 3,414
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Originally Posted by stanb999
If you don't like paying taxes. Earn less and produce more for yourself. It's just that simple folks.  |
LOl we already do that!! If you dont have a bunch of deductions because you dont have the money to spend, you dont get as many breaks.
Heck we only have 2 kids to deduct and the mortgage does give us squat in deductions because thats so low. We only pay 200 a month on our mortgage. Our taxes are low as heck to and thus again less deduction.
So in reality the cheaper you live the less to deduct.
Living within your means doesnt mean scott free at tax time. 
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My site.
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03/23/11, 11:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: South Central WI
Posts: 834
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Still working through.
We want to change from Quicken to Quickbooks, should be better set up for farm stuff.
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03/24/11, 12:37 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MN
Posts: 7,609
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With farming as my sole income, I have to file by March 1st if I would make more income than my wife has with-held from her taxes, so this poll doesn't perhaps apply to me - I _need_ to be done with the paperwork. 
--->Paul
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03/24/11, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Western New York
Posts: 542
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Originally Posted by ErinP
To be fair, you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE who "doesn't pay a penny in taxes"...
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I don't pay any federal tax, the credit from our 3 kids pays the tax, I don't get back more than is with held but I get everything back they just borrow it for the year. Now if only I didn't live in NY because they still hit me pretty good!
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03/24/11, 06:10 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone 9b, Lake Harney, Central FL
Posts: 4,898
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I didn't get enough back to pay the property taxes this year. Guess Uncle Sam needed it to pay folks that didn't earn enogh to pay him....I am the beast you are starving.
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03/24/11, 06:23 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Georgia
Posts: 39
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We already filed ours and got a small refund. Used that to to buy a new canner & mason Jars. 
David
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03/24/11, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 5,425
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Originally Posted by Tad
I don't pay any federal tax, the credit from our 3 kids pays the tax, I don't get back more than is with held but I get everything back they just borrow it for the year. Now if only I didn't live in NY because they still hit me pretty good!
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That's one of the good things about PA. If you don't pay federal you don't pay state taxes. So I get it all back. 
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03/24/11, 06:44 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,773
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Done, received and spent.
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Gary in Central Ohio
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03/24/11, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: N. E. TX
Posts: 29,592
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YES! And one good thing about being poor-did not pay into & not getting anything back, hard to if you didn't pay in.
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03/24/11, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 543
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No! I always file late. I have all the receipts, etc., in a shoe box, put just procrastinate to the max. Now, if we have a couple of days of pouring rain back to back, I just might do them, but I'm late most every time without a problem because I always get a refund.
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03/24/11, 07:23 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 14
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Thinking of not doing them at all, what with the way our money is so mismanaged.
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03/24/11, 07:26 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: south central KY 75 miles SSE of Louisville
Posts: 1,359
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tad
Had mine done the 3rd of feb. You don't put it off when you get money back! There needs to be a choice for "refund spent already"!
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03/27/11, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 5,240
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I hit the jackpot!!!!!!!! Got my taxes done this year, and I get a refund back from everyone - Federal, State, and Local.
I always get a refund from Federal - I make sure enough is taken out at work so we don't have to write a big check in the middle of April.
I usually owe both State and Local, but this year I paid estimated tax to both, and apparently I sent in a bit too much. Oh well, kind of a forced savings plan.
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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania
"Everything happens for a reason."
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03/27/11, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,325
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No hurry it is not time yet. 
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03/27/11, 09:55 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 9
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my vote:
Hi, new here.
voted already filed and already spent. 
Thistlemoon
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03/27/11, 10:09 PM
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Volvo With a Gun Rack
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Texas and Missouri
Posts: 2,513
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We normally are very close to correct when we file (ie no refund, don't owe), but will get back $3k this year due to a highly tax withheld bonus that was paid last fall.
My DW does the taxes....I have not prepared a return in something like 26 years!
Tim
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03/27/11, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 1,881
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This is the only time during the year that I wish I had 12 children.....gotta love self employment.
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03/27/11, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 537
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im still waiting to get the letter from the irs for the auditing of years 07 08 09. will be paying that when the final letter comes in the mail....will be picking up our 2010 taxs and tax bill next week....and will pay that one closer to the deadline......it all makes my head spin and stomach turn over... so hi ho, hi ho, its off to work we go to pay our taxs
samm
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03/27/11, 11:30 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
Posts: 30,490
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I just heard from the accountant that I overpaid last year. What a relief. 
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