Who does their own taxes?

[superspec]

just got off the phone with my stepdad, we are getting 3200 back this round and should get 1500 in may... wife says i get 1/3rd of it!!!

 

[Mustang5L5]

What's the deal with those refunds?? Are they really just an advance on our 2009 refund??

 

[grey5.0beast]

economic stimulus check. They upped the refunds or some crap hoping we'd dump the money into the economy.

My neighbor got back 18k!!!!

 

[svtpower]

*About my bike* Yeah I bought it this way, I like the way it looks though.

economic stimulus check. They upped the refunds or some crap hoping we'd dump the money into the economy.

My neighbor got back 18k!!!!

The econ stimulus checks are totally separate from your normal tax refunds and the most a person can get is $600 ($1200 for married couples) plus $300 per qualifying child.

If he got $18K, hes talking about taxes, the econ stimulus checks have not gone out yet and won't be anything to get too excited over.

 

[Black1987Stang]

*About my bike* Yeah I bought it this way, I like the way it looks though.





The econ stimulus checks are totally separate from your normal tax refunds and the most a person can get is $600 ($1200 for married couples) plus $300 per qualifying child.

If he got $18K, hes talking about taxes, the econ stimulus checks have not gone out yet and won't be anything to get too excited over.

I'm pretty excited over $600 for doing nothing
plus I get mine next month

 

[superspec]

I'm pretty excited over $600 for doing nothing
plus I get mine next month

believe me, you paid for it somewhere down the road.

 

[DucatiRdr]

believe me, you paid for it somewhere down the road.

Or our kids will, which is what bothers me.

 

[superspec]

i feel fairly certain that ive paid for mine. ill never get to draw any of my SS, or medicare or anything else im paying out of every paycheck.

 

[DucatiRdr]

ill never get to draw any of my SS, or medicare or anything else im paying out of every paycheck.

Why not?

I wouldn't worry about SS and especially Medicare being available for you/us unless we have Chinese tanks rolling through downtown DC.

 

[vikingpower]

Why not?

I wouldn't worry about SS and especially Medicare being available for you/us unless we have Chinese tanks rolling through downtown DC.

I think we all know how tanks made in China would fare...

 

[ill advised]

The best thing about doing your own taxes is that you educate yourself in the process, and knowing what is going on could come in handy someday. Besides, taxes aren't that hard to do anyways, all you gotta do is sit down and read the stuff and fill in boxes.

I agree. My wife and I started doing our own taxes a few years ago. The woman who did our family's taxes for years passed away and we didn't want to go to someone new. I'm glad we decided to take a crack at it on our own. It's gets easier and more familiar every year. The part I hate most is getting the receipts together. Every year we say we'll keep them better organized and every year they're scattered all over the place.

 

[gcwh02]

I do mine too, I figured since im an accounting major I should learn it sooner or later.

 

[trbkrb]

I just finished filing mine a few hours ago. Nothing like a CPA waiting until the last minute, but I usually wait and file an extension like Ducati. But since I'm getting more than a couple hundred back this year, and the stimulus check ($2,400 for me!) I figured I better file it "early". LOL!