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bonzai, the fenderal return is free. Like CKS said though, just have ignore an add to upgrade like 10 times before you finish. The state returns you have to pay for though TurboTax though. Howeve, I usually fill out everything and see what my return is. If it's a fairly large difference between the simple file and the "long form" file then I'll pay to upgrade. Last year there was no point in upgrading, this year it got me an extra $150 to upgrade, so I went for it. It'll show you the difference at the end between the diff types of returns I believe.
So I googled around about the differences between 1040EZ/A and the regular 1040 that it said I had to submit and the only thing I can see is that I listed charitable donations in the deductions section? So if I didn't do that (it wasn't thhhaaatttt much money- a few hundred), I could've filed a 1040A? I really don't think I accepted upgrade that would have forced me to do it.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Oh, I'm assuming we all use TurboTax (I do). I pretty much just dread anything that isn't being comfy on my sofa.
BUUUUUT, you CAN be comfy on your sofa while you do your taxes. I guess I just don't understand waiting till the last minute to get money. If you know you're going to owe I totally understand waiting, but I just see getting my W2's as like another Christmas morning. I come home that day and do them and then 2ish weeks later I have more money! Money excites me. Money pays for things.
Well, doing your taxes isn't exactly the comfy I had in mind lol.
And don't get me wrong I love money, but I like to save my refund check for fun spring/summer things, and I would have assuredly used it by now if I did my taxes when my W2 came through.
Wait, what? Really? That's cool. Although, I usually get around $80-100 back from state returns every year.
bonzai, the fenderal return is free. Like CKS said though, just have ignore an add to upgrade like 10 times before you finish. The state returns you have to pay for though TurboTax though. Howeve, I usually fill out everything and see what my return is. If it's a fairly large difference between the simple file and the "long form" file then I'll pay to upgrade. Last year there was no point in upgrading, this year it got me an extra $150 to upgrade, so I went for it. It'll show you the difference at the end between the diff types of returns I believe.
Yep, no state income tax. But I think our sales tax tends to be higher then other states (maybe not though, don't quote me on that)? Our sales tax tends to range around the 8% range depending on what city you're in.
Yes and no. While I believe that taxing income is not ideal (you could make an argument that it's a way of "punishing work"), states with low or no income taxes tend to offset the loss in income tax receipts with higher sales taxes, property taxes, and other miscellaneous fees, which are usually much more regressive than income taxes.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Do you pay for the physical software instead of doing it online?
Online free edition, but when I got to the end it said I would not be able to file my claim without upgrading to Deluxe.
Well I hope their little algorithm works and that your upgrade more than paid itself with your deductions. It would be shitty if they forced you into upgrading if the simpler form would have sufficed.
Yep, no state income tax. But I think our sales tax tends to be higher then other states (maybe not though, don't quote me on that)? Our sales tax tends to range around the 8% range depending on what city you're in.
Texas' sales tax is 6.25% with counties being able to add up to 2% onto that (most of them do). Illinois has the same sales tax rules for the most part, 6.25% with counties being able to add on if wanted. In Illinois, most of our food is taxed at 1% and not 6.25-8.25% but as someone doing research on moving to Texas, I really like the idea of no income tax. I just did the math on how much I pay in state tax now and that is a nice extra chunk of income for me to hold on to.
Well there ya go, the official answer! It's always been 8-8.25% where I've lived (counties surrounding Houston, San Antonio, Austin), but I do remember paying in the 7% range further out in the country.
Texas does not tax some of the food items, but does either. I think it basically boils down to whether the food is prepared already or not. Prepared food is taxed, but items such as bread, vegetables, meat, things you prepare yourself are not taxed.
Yep, no state income tax. But I think our sales tax tends to be higher then other states (maybe not though, don't quote me on that)? Our sales tax tends to range around the 8% range depending on what city you're in.
Texas' sales tax is 6.25% with counties being able to add up to 2% onto that (most of them do). Illinois has the same sales tax rules for the most part, 6.25% with counties being able to add on if wanted. In Illinois, most of our food is taxed at 1% and not 6.25-8.25% but as someone doing research on moving to Texas, I really like the idea of no income tax. I just did the math on how much I pay in state tax now and that is a nice extra chunk of income for me to hold on to.
Ohio has a 6.25% sales tax and I'm not sure I've ever heard of counties adding on to that, so I don't think that is an option here. And we have no food tax, just tax on beverages.
Where in Texas are you looking at? Moreso just being nosey than anything else. Lol.
Maybe you could move here and we could take care of each other?
I think we would be horrible influences on one another and would just get drunk all the time and avoid the real adulting that we should be doing. which sounds just fine, actually.
bonzai, the fenderal return is free. Like CKS said though, just have ignore an add to upgrade like 10 times before you finish. The state returns you have to pay for though TurboTax though. Howeve, I usually fill out everything and see what my return is. If it's a fairly large difference between the simple file and the "long form" file then I'll pay to upgrade. Last year there was no point in upgrading, this year it got me an extra $150 to upgrade, so I went for it. It'll show you the difference at the end between the diff types of returns I believe.
So I googled around about the differences between 1040EZ/A and the regular 1040 that it said I had to submit and the only thing I can see is that I listed charitable donations in the deductions section? So if I didn't do that (it wasn't thhhaaatttt much money- a few hundred), I could've filed a 1040A? I really don't think I accepted upgrade that would have forced me to do it.
If your itemized deductions (all listed on schedule A: medical expenses, mortgage interest, state and property taxes, donations, etc.) are greater than $10,150 - it pays to do the regular 1040 over 1040ez. You cannot use the 1040ez if you recieve passive income through partnerships or corporations, farm income, receive more than $10,000 in interest from investments...and lots of other reasons.
If you own a home with debt against it, it is probably worth the extra work to fill out the longer 1040. The interest, property taxes ans state taxes alone would get you close to the $10,150 cut off.
Not a tax professional. I just look at them all the time.
That works as well. alyssa How are you about keeping on top of taxes and other appointments?
Did my taxes yesterday and I even mailed them in. Last week I had my yearly physical/bloodwork with the doctor to make sure I'm not dead. Tonight I have an appointment at the bar to watch hockey.
Do you pay for the physical software instead of doing it online?
Online free edition, but when I got to the end it said I would not be able to file my claim without upgrading to Deluxe.
It told me the same thing at the end of filing mine earlier this year. I just declined one last time and filed anyway. It said my file had been accepted the next day. I kept expecting that to change or for them to add the upgrade fee but they never did.
So I googled around about the differences between 1040EZ/A and the regular 1040 that it said I had to submit and the only thing I can see is that I listed charitable donations in the deductions section? So if I didn't do that (it wasn't thhhaaatttt much money- a few hundred), I could've filed a 1040A? I really don't think I accepted upgrade that would have forced me to do it.
If your itemized deductions (all listed on schedule A: medical expenses, mortgage interest, state and property taxes, donations, etc.) are greater than $10,150 - it pays to do the regular 1040 over 1040ez. You cannot use the 1040ez if you recieve passive income through partnerships or corporations, farm income, receive more than $10,000 in interest from investments...and lots of other reasons.
If you own a home with debt against it, it is probably worth the extra work to fill out the longer 1040. The interest, property taxes ans state taxes alone would get you close to the $10,150 cut off.
Not a tax professional. I just look at them all the time.
Thanks! Hopefully it paid the Deluxe off. I did claim a few hundred in charitable donations and a few hundred more in unreimbursed work expenses, but that's it. No mortage, no medical expense, not a student, no kids... Nothing else on my form besides my W-2s (2 instate) and a few hundred dollars in 1099s.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Online free edition, but when I got to the end it said I would not be able to file my claim without upgrading to Deluxe.
It told me the same thing at the end of filing mine earlier this year. I just declined one last time and filed anyway. It said my file had been accepted the next day. I kept expecting that to change or for them to add the upgrade fee but they never did.
Now this makes me REALLY sad. I could have just said, "F YOU TURBOTAX! I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU?!" I thought maybe if I didn't accept it would delete everything.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Post by crazykittensmile on Apr 15, 2015 14:52:01 GMT -5
Our campus delivery people are goofballs. Because our office assistant is at lunch they wanted me to accept a large package full of god knows what and put it in our break room refrigerator because the lab isn't answering their door.
Heck. No.
1. That's gross/unsanitary 2. Who knows what temperature this stuff needs to be kept at 3. That's not my freaking problem
When we accept non-refrigerated packaged sometimes the lab peeps don't come and pick them up for WEEKS at a time. I'm not going to make myself responsible for this package and it possibly going bad. Sometimes their contents are worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
So I googled around about the differences between 1040EZ/A and the regular 1040 that it said I had to submit and the only thing I can see is that I listed charitable donations in the deductions section? So if I didn't do that (it wasn't thhhaaatttt much money- a few hundred), I could've filed a 1040A? I really don't think I accepted upgrade that would have forced me to do it.
If your itemized deductions (all listed on schedule A: medical expenses, mortgage interest, state and property taxes, donations, etc.) are greater than $10,150 - it pays to do the regular 1040 over 1040ez. You cannot use the 1040ez if you recieve passive income through partnerships or corporations, farm income, receive more than $10,000 in interest from investments...and lots of other reasons.
If you own a home with debt against it, it is probably worth the extra work to fill out the longer 1040. The interest, property taxes ans state taxes alone would get you close to the $10,150 cut off.
Not a tax professional. I just look at them all the time.
I own a home with a mortgage and I was not anywhere even remotely close to the standard deduction. But we also don't have a state income tax, so maybe that would have put me closer.
It told me the same thing at the end of filing mine earlier this year. I just declined one last time and filed anyway. It said my file had been accepted the next day. I kept expecting that to change or for them to add the upgrade fee but they never did.
Now this makes me REALLY sad. I could have just said, "F YOU TURBOTAX! I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU?!" I thought maybe if I didn't accept it would delete everything.
Well, I just had a couple of 1099's and not all the other deductions that you claimed, so it could very well be worth the price of the upgrade. At least it's done. I just thought if I said no and it was a must the worst they could do was tell me again before they let me file. Also, this was in February so I had some time to do it again if it was later rejected.
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
I own a home with a mortgage and I was not anywhere even remotely close to the standard deduction. But we also don't have a state income tax, so maybe that would have put me closer.
I am (obviously) someone who thinks these tax forms are written in another language. Just remembered that I didn't qualify for anything above the standard deduction, so the money was most definitely wasted.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
I live in PA but work in NJ. However, the two states have an agreement that allows me to file my taxes as if I worked in PA. So in TurboTax I actually select that I do not work in a different state.
If it's neighboring states there's usually some sort of similar agreement. TurboTax usually points this out, and their FAQ section was actually pretty helpful for the handful of questions I had.
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
yea like i said, i don't deal with it, i give my parents $80 and their guy does it. he basically told them that i'm wasting my money and i could easily do it myself. just get all my paperwork together and send it off. i got my refund like 2 months ago. idk the answers to your questions!!!! besides that you should probably get a new drivers license
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
I live in PA but work in NJ. However, the two states have an agreement that allows me to file my taxes as if I worked in PA. So in TurboTax I actually select that I do not work in a different state.
If it's neighboring states there's usually some sort of similar agreement. TurboTax usually points this out, and their FAQ section was actually pretty helpful for the handful of questions I had.
good to know! SD and MN are neighbors, so hopefully there's something like that. I'll have to research it later...
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
I live in PA but work in NJ. However, the two states have an agreement that allows me to file my taxes as if I worked in PA. So in TurboTax I actually select that I do not work in a different state.
If it's neighboring states there's usually some sort of similar agreement. TurboTax usually points this out, and their FAQ section was actually pretty helpful for the handful of questions I had.
good to know! SD and MN are neighbors, so hopefully there's something like that. I'll have to research it later...
it's giving me anxiety because, like every single other idiot on here, I haven't done my taxes either
also. what do you do when you're license is from a different state than you work in? do you still file state taxes for where you work...? I'm tax-challenged. OH. and how do you file your renter's refund!? HALP.
I would consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person, but this every-day adult kind of shit makes me feel so dumb. my parents never taught me stuff like this. I guess this is what happens when you're the baby of the family by 8+ years....
yea like i said, i don't deal with it, i give my parents $80 and their guy does it. he basically told them that i'm wasting my money and i could easily do it myself. just get all my paperwork together and send it off. i got my refund like 2 months ago. idk the answers to your questions!!!! besides that you should probably get a new drivers license
I'm actually trying to swing through sodak next weekend, and going to try and renew it then. there's no point to taking the written test to get an MN license if I'm moving in less than 6 months.
I live in PA but work in NJ. However, the two states have an agreement that allows me to file my taxes as if I worked in PA. So in TurboTax I actually select that I do not work in a different state.
If it's neighboring states there's usually some sort of similar agreement. TurboTax usually points this out, and their FAQ section was actually pretty helpful for the handful of questions I had.
good to know! SD and MN are neighbors, so hopefully there's something like that. I'll have to research it later...
yea like i said, i don't deal with it, i give my parents $80 and their guy does it. he basically told them that i'm wasting my money and i could easily do it myself. just get all my paperwork together and send it off. i got my refund like 2 months ago. idk the answers to your questions!!!! besides that you should probably get a new drivers license
I'm actually trying to swing through sodak next weekend, and going to try and renew it then. there's no point to taking the written test to get an MN license if I'm moving in less than 6 months.
I'm actually trying to swing through sodak next weekend, and going to try and renew it then. there's no point to taking the written test to get an MN license if I'm moving in less than 6 months.
I'm actually trying to swing through sodak next weekend, and going to try and renew it then. there's no point to taking the written test to get an MN license if I'm moving in less than 6 months.
and how long have you been here now? lol
I lived in GA for three years without switching my TN license or my car registration. In retrospect, probably not my smartest move, but it always seemed like such a hassle.