taxes
 

I want to |cry| I just had my taxes done
Fred

Yeah, unfortunately taxes are one of life's necessary evils. As my father used to say whenever mom would get on his case to do work around the house:

"All I have to do is die and pay my taxes."

That about sums it up. Hope this year goes better for you. :)

yeah, life's like this :/

btw: how are the taxes in colorado?

I hate taxes just a royal pain in the ass since i always owe hahaha.I haven't had a refund in like 10yrs it seems haha.Great now I think tonight will be a drink and forget night haha.

I got a huge refund this year. :D

Mine have been done for 2 months. I got $3000 back form NY State & owed $2500 on my Federal taxes. So I hurried up & sent in my State paperwork & prayed that my refund got here before the 15th.

It came in last week, so now I get to enjoy my $500 refund :D

Florida has no state income tax. :P

I always figure, if you get a refund, you were giving the state/country a 0% interest loan with your money. Pity that the government isn't nearly as generous if you owe and are subject to penalties.

However, each year, somehow I have still overpaid my estimated taxes and end up getting something back which is applied to my first quarter estimated. Then, sometimes I get a few hundred back after that.

Since I really suck at saving money I overpay my withholding so that I'll get something back. I know that I'm giving the government free use of my money but it does force me to save something.

That and I had a very nice tax write off this year due to nature deciding that I was over due for a home remodel.

as usual i have to pay....alot

Actually this is the first year that I didn't owe money.

I adjusted my business's paychecks to me withholding allowance to allow for the other sources of income that I have paid to me personally that I do not pay taxes on at the time of receiving them so that I didn't end up owing a bunch of money in taxes at tax time again like what happens to me each year.

Then we had a hurricane and I borrowed money on the house to remodel and had a loss from the storm so I have some nice deductions now. :)

I do think that I'm going to leave my withholding where it is so that I get money back again next year. I'll just look at it as the I Can't Save Tax.

You know, this is the 1st year since I went "porn" that I didn't have to pay State taxes at the end of the year & this is the lowest that I've paid the feds. I've been thinking about this for 2 months & it simply means that I'm not doing as good as I have in the past years (owing money just means that I made a lot)

That part scares me a bit.

With tax preparation costs included, my effective tax rate this year was 4.71%

in 2002, I think it was about 7.7%. In 2000 I think I was at 28.1% (including 6 months of Maryland residence). Don't just file taxes with your accountant -- use him for tax planning. I send mine my quickbooks files every quarter and he lets me know where I am, what I need to do to get where I want to be.

people say that yep. what bugs me for awhile is that i am already in th 50% taxes so all i earn i have to give 50% away to taxes the dollar went very low in value and their was an certain moment that i realy thought to quit bizz because for every 160 dollars i would get 100euro and from those 100 i may give away 50....ackkk i hate netherland

Just got my taxes done last night finally... and, I'm actually getting a refund too. :) That happens almost never... or maybe just on leap years... I'm sure there's a pattern here somewhere.