procrastinators, come on out!

[tomato]

Who hasn't sent out their tax papers yet? (or filed online)

OK, me. :redface:

I dread doing it. No matter how I plan for it, seems I'm always short a few hundred dollars and have to pay extra state taxes on April 15. :rolleyes: Or maybe California is just out to get me ? :help: j/k

So, anyone else put it off til the last minute?

Or did you get your a tax refund already?
if you did, did you buy anything cool with it or put the $$ back in your pocket?

[eht13]

Relax, you've got another week. :laugh:

We did ours about a month ago, and got our refunds soon after that. :thumbsup:

[SilverBack]

I did it right away 2 months ago. Really needed the money :frown:

[10DG22]

I did mine as soon as possible lol.. that was like a month or so ago.

[Slick]

I waited till last weekend because I am a subcontractor who doesn't take out for taxes :( The overall number wasn't pretty for what I owed. Lets just say I wont be moding my car any time soon.

[SilverBack]

Off-topic meet update - Procrastinator's Convention: Postponed

[tomato]

^ lol, I was just gonna say that... A true procrastinator is probably not gonna post anything in this thread. Maybe tomorrow.


@ slick, I hear ya :frown:

[IllusionX]

i always send out mine as soon as i get my T4's... cuz i know i don't want to let the gov't keep my money any longer.. hehe.

[why?]

i get them done fast, mostly because my father does income taxes for a living, plus i earn so little i get everything back, not that everything is a lot.

[06silveryaris]

signing them off as I post this and mailing tomorow

[Revsson]

Hmmm....hopefully this weekend, but I always seem to do it at the last minute, even
when I get a refund.

[SailDesign]

I'm with Slick - what deadlines? :smile:
Refund? Biggest ever was $32 from the State - never seen one from the Feds.

[goliath1812]

I got them done as soon as I could. With turbotax. My entire refund went towards my credit cards :(

[DevilGirl]

Did the initial return awhile ago... Paid for my extra set of rims for the car... Waiting on my amended return amount to come back... Probably won't see that till May... That will probably go towards a deposit for the wedding reception venue...

[talnlnky]

Who hasn't sent out their tax papers yet? (or filed online)

OK, me. :redface:

I dread doing it. No matter how I plan for it, seems I'm always short a few hundred dollars and have to pay extra state taxes on April 15. :rolleyes: Or maybe California is just out to get me ? :help: j/k

So, anyone else put it off til the last minute?

Or did you get your a tax refund already?
if you did, did you buy anything cool with it or put the $$ back in your pocket?

fill out your W-2 or 2-4 or whatever with more with holdings. I always get money back... next year i'll be married too... so I should get even more back. I'm usually one of the worst procrastinators... but this is money for me.... so you know i'm up on it. Think I had my refund deposited in my bank by Feb 20th.

some people say that if you have too much withheld that you are giving the govt an interest free loan... yeah... you also get a lump of cash at the beginning of the year. Tho, if you had that extra $10, $20, 50, or $100 a month you most likely would've just wasted it on consumable products and not have anything to show for it.... so it seems more withholdings are the way to go unless you are a great saver, or stick strictly to a budget and investment plan.

[talnlnky]

I got them done as soon as I could. With turbotax. My entire refund went towards my credit cards :(

Ditto.... sad day. I went 2 years without paying a cent of interest on my credit card... then the GF quit her job, went to grad school. That in additon to the ring I had bought for her a few months before forced me to keep a balance on the credit card... oh well, hoping to have the card completely paid off by the end of summer.

[ezhacker1]

As a college student who is still a dependant, i owe money, like 46 bucks. Seeing im co buyer on the Yaris 09, my dad will get the tax dedecution. Hopefully my education credit: (American Opportunity) will get me money back though i only pay for books, dad takes care of tuition.

I do volunteer income taxes at my school for low income people (students, families), its funny when people get angry at us. Its not OUR fault, blame the gov't.

[cali yaris]

I'm finishing tonight. I have to do three Schedule C's (one for each company), so it's a little tedious. TurboTax does a real nice job, then we go to H&R Block and have them look for mistakes, just for insurance.

I paid estimated quarterlies, I don't expect a huge tax burden this time.

[JBougie]

I'm waiting. We owe $2,600 so there is no hurry. lol I'll mail it on the 14th :)

They'll still get it on time, and they'll be happy. Then they'll leave me alone for another 12 months haha

[JBougie]

I got them done as soon as I could. With turbotax. My entire refund went towards my credit cards :(

Hey - that may suck now, but it will rock in the long run!! :thumbup:

[RedRide]

I was going to post about how i just mailed out my state tax but, I will do it some other time.:wink:

[Shroomster]

paid off our credit card after 3 long years.....of swapping from 0% to 0% card....lol

sheesh...still nothing to show for it all :/

[tomato]

I'm waiting. We owe $2,600 so there is no hurry. lol I'll mail it on the 14th :)

They'll still get it on time, and they'll be happy. Then they'll leave me alone for another 12 months haha

you don't by any chance plan to send the fed tax forms in the state envelope and vice versa? ;) People do that :biggrin:

back to trying to locate that !$!@@# 1099. I hope it's around here somewhere. that's what I get for waiting until the last minute...

back at it

[BailOut]

My wife was self employed last year and it was new to both of us. We didn't save anything throughout the year for her earnings, and I'm always close to the perfect withholding amount, so rather than owing or paying around $200 as we do most years I thought we'd owe about $3k. We saved up for that as part of our efforts to become debt free this year.

I wanted to know the actual amount we'd owe so that I could plan for it better so I visited a tax service office in early February for the first time (I'd always done our taxes myself in the past). The idea was to hang on to the money we'd owe until mid-April so that we could gain the interest on it but we received a pleasant surprise. Between the large amount of deductions the self employed can use, the large amount of dental work my wife needed in 2009, and the extra deductions that were special this year like sales tax and home efficiency improvements, we actually came out with a $2k refund!

I owed $5k on my Yaris and it was next in line (and next to last) for debt wiping, so I combined the refund and what we'd saved for the taxes and paid it off. :smile:

We became debt free at the end of February. :w00t:

[Yaris Hilton]

I've been meaning to reply to this thread. Maybe I'll get around to it eventually.

[tomato]

hahaha! ^ Yup, I was asking for it ;)

all done, pfewww. Turbotax to the rescue again.

The Feds gave me some back, but as usual, California ... http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad027.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

It's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be, though. There is a little bit left over, just enough for that Android smartphone I've been obsessing about lately :woot:

Now, I get to drop the check in the mail. There is still time. I can probably get to it tomorrow. Or the next day...

[DevilGirl]

We became debt free at the end of February. :w00t:

Awesomeness!! Congrats!

[JBougie]

I am mailing mine tomorrow - I found out about that Schedule M and I forgot about how I could deduct my tuition from last year so instead of owing $2600 - we are getting $211 back from feds - and then we are getting a whole $107 back from the state of MN.

SWEET!

I love paying tuition out of pocket, it makes me happy at the end of the year :) I don't think I'm ever going to quit school lol

[JBougie]

hahaha! ^ Yup, I was asking for it ;)

all done, pfewww. Turbotax to the rescue again.

The Feds gave me some back, but as usual, California ... http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad027.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

It's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be, though. There is a little bit left over, just enough for that Android smartphone I've been obsessing about lately :woot:

Now, I get to drop the check in the mail. There is still time. I can probably get to it tomorrow. Or the next day...

OOooohhhh - which Android?!

[tomato]

Oh, boy, don't get me started :wink:

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27018

I'm still in the decision process

Funny story, though, I got my check to the state tax board ready to go on Monday morning, stuck it in my purse, went out ... completely forgot about it. Just found it, ran out to the mailbox.. pfewww.