Damn taxes...

[monkspider]

Actually, I think this white boy from the projects might finally be comin' up.
I just got a job doing tech support for some ISP around here and I will be making a whopping 20k a year, I don't know what to do with it all. I never thought I could ever be this rich. Between the Mrs. and I, we will make a combined 40k a year!

[Al B. Sure!]

how complicated is the whole tax rebate thing? a lot of people i know don't even bother with it cause they say it's too hard.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
i'm just saying... think about it... of 8 hours of working, a full hour and a half is gone in taxes... don't that sound like quite a bit much? 1.5 out of 8 hours?

How long would it take you if you had to hike your ass cross country, and provide for your own security, or perhap simply give up all your wages and clothes and beg for mercy, a la the middle ages?

[Al B. Sure!]

MtG:

people back then were used to it

nah but we have progressed... tell me that 1.5 out of 8 hours in taxes isn't a bit steep though... in all seriousness... if it weren't for deductions and all that, that is quite a bit of a day's work lost in taxes.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Head of household means that you have a legal dependant. (a) you have to have one of the defined legal relationships in the Internal Revenue Code; (b) the dependent has to primarily live with you; and (c) you have to provide more than 50% of that dependant's support.

For HoH filing status, your bio or adopted kid under 18 (or under 22, if a full time student living with you, IIRC) or your disabled adult kid, or a parent for whom you provide a majority of financial support. There may be a few others, such as a minor who lives with you when you are the legal guardian, but not a parent.

Check the IRS website.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
how complicated is the whole tax rebate thing? a lot of people i know don't even bother with it cause they say it's too hard.

What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? It ain't too hard if you look at it like a paying job.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
MtG:

people back then were used to it

nah but we have progressed... tell me that 1.5 out of 8 hours in taxes isn't a bit steep though... in all seriousness... if it weren't for deductions and all that, that is quite a bit of a day's work lost in taxes.

This year, I get to pay slightly in excess of 4 hours of every 8 worked between all forms of Federal, state and local taxes and mandatory business fees, etc.

So don't ***** to me.

[Al B. Sure!]

MtG:

i figured it was people not knowing anything and being lazy... you can get all the forms at the public library and there's places where you can go where they'll help you out with your taxes for free... so yeah its probably people being stupid

[monkspider]

Alb, it's not too tough actually. I usually fill out my own taxes, and after donating five dollars to Chickadee Checkoff, I can make out with a pretty sizeable load of money.

[Al B. Sure!]

haha, mtg... thats a shame... you still working in mexico? but at least the four hours when you got paid you got quite a bit of money, right?

[monkspider]

Mexico has a dirt cheap cost of living though, if I could speak Spanish, it wouldn't be a bad place to live at all.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Yeah - about 300 yards or so from the beach. Just far enough not to deal with traffic and noise, close enough to get the weather.

And yeah, this year I will max out on every tax bracket.

[Ted Striker]

sure beats Riverside with all the cows huh mtg

[Al B. Sure!]

so you got to pay Mexican taxes too, mtg?

[David Floyd]

Obviously I agree with AS on the tax issue.