Tax Season!

[shmenguin]

this is garbage. NJ sends me unclear directions on what they actually need from me to process my 100% legit, unfishy refund. they give me a phone number to call with questions, and every time i try calling, there's an automated message saying that they're under heavy volume and can't accept any more calls.

this smells bad. i think it's pretty clear they don't have the money to pay out all their refunds right now, and are making it impossible for certain people to get back the thousands of dollars that they're owed in a timely manner.

[eddysnake]

Surprise!
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/12/pf/taxe ... index.html

The IRS said 10%, or more than 600,000, of the 6.6 million returns claiming education credits it has received so far this tax season were improperly filed by tax software providers. As a result, those refunds could be delayed for as long as six weeks.

[mac5155]

Surprise!
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/12/pf/taxe ... index.html

The IRS said 10%, or more than 600,000, of the 6.6 million returns claiming education credits it has received so far this tax season were improperly filed by tax software providers. As a result, those refunds could be delayed for as long as six weeks.

LOL @ them blaming tax software companies. Next time, congress should pass the tax laws sooner.

[pittsoccer33]

thought this was interesting. its a few years old, but when i was looking for info on the jock tax I came across this. can you say taxation without representation?

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My complaint with it is 17 teammates will be paying money out of their own pocket to play in Tennessee. It's a tax rate of over 100%

[viva la ben]

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is tax day

[Hockeynut!]

Guess I have to pay my taxes

[thepittman]

Had to pay in for the first time

[FreeCandy44]

Had to pay in for the first time

Yeah ditto

[MWB]

Owe the Feds, get money back from the state. Second year in a row for that.

[mac5155]

Paid tonight. Owed a few bucks to state. Guilt took over and I gave them $6 for use tax.

[ulf]

fellow accountants, congrats on surviving the last 3 months. all you other plebs, hope you didn't bring your stuff to your accountant on april 12th

[the wicked child]

I owed $1 to the feds... ended up with a few bucks to the state for usage tax... forget the exact amount since I had a few bucks in the positive left over from previous years. I wasn't about to have the state send me a $2 check and end up on their always audit list.

[mac5155]

Turbo tax told me I e - filed my fiancees return. But I don't remember doing that.. Regardless I paid them the $7 she owed them. Maybe did it twice

[FreeCandy44]

Uncle Sam thanks you for the extra $7.00.

[mac5155]

Uncle Sam thanks you for the extra $7.00.

I sent it to Mr Corbett...

[the wicked child]

I just did the estimated usage tax. I could have gone back through all of my amazon purchases prior to them collecting tax, but the time was worth more than a few bucks to me.

Also, super awesome that Turbo Tax supported importing your W2s this year. Made the whole process even less painful.

[Letang Is The Truth]

Getting a paycheck back :thumb:

[blackjack68]

Chris Christie gets $281.

Obama sending me $5K.

Now that's a deal!

[viva la ben]

Ravenstahl gets $50, Corbett gets $70...my state and local witholdings were only slightly off.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

I always owe the state $1 or $2 because of interest, dividends, and capital gains.

[ExPatriatePen]

Happy confiscation day everyone. I paid more in federal taxes this year than I earned in 1998.

I understand that taxes are a necessary evil. But the way the Governement goes about this would make our founding fathers reach for their muskets.

[shmenguin]

new jersey is garbage. i get a nice refund because i pay a zillion dollars in property taxes. then they send me a letter saying that there may be shenanigans in play, so i have to send them copies of all of my tax documents and pay stubs that i don't have anymore. their phone # to call with questions doesn't work, by the way. after a few weeks of getting this stuff together and finally sending it out, they send me a letter saying basically, "don't worry about sending that stuff after all. we're very concerned about fraud, so we were just being safe, but you're cool."

Translation: we didn't have enough money to pay everyone's refund, so we sent you on a wild goose chase while we got our act together.

[viva la ben]

Those all in one printer scanner copiers with wifi are very affordable nowadays. I scan everything and backup to an external HD.

[mac5155]

I need to get some sort of data backup.

[shafnutz05]

I'll just stick this here: