US INCOME TAX!

jesus

how much could you have gotten done towards making a better estimate all this hours instead of freaking about it?

i.e. listen to felicity!

As salient as the emotion might be, I don't think I'm gonna invest in Angry Tom's Advice Cabinet this time o' year, y'know?

They really care about taxpayers declaring income, yes. If you know you made over $100,000 they would like you to tell them about that, yes.

xp THANK YOU TOMBOT. I've half a mind to start scouting out the government foreclosure sales in SF. Kind of nice up there.

1. blatantly break the law

2. adhere to the law in a half-assed fashion

WHICH WILL MAKE THE FEDERAL GOVT MORE LIKELY TO HATE YOU

OH I DON'T KNOW

Look, all I want to know is what are the specific consequences of late filing. I could file electronically tomorrow. I'm just weighing my options.

Calm down Toms. I'm not filing YR return, now.

God you people are so invested in other folks' dramas.

Then you should pay someone to find out all about it for you!

Let's not open up that barrel full of drama right now, aimmy.

you are asking what the consequences are for breaking the law. like, in a big stupid way that you can still avoid. what in the fuck kind of advice did you want? the tax rate for your income is about 20%. Give or take a couple of thousand dollars, would you rather wait a few months for a refund or get audited?

LESS TROLLING MORE FILING

(p.s. Does the house come with a static IP address?)

lol @ taxes makin people so heated

I would estimate 19.5%

Not quite. I'm asking what kind of sedatives I can send you so's to keep you from having a heart attack, Tom.

troll

If I were trolling you'd be on the floor clutching yr chest and punching 9-1-1 on yr cellie.

kind of hoping the IRS goes to town on your rich ass

I'm sorry. I gave you an answer you didn't want. Here:

"it doesn't matter, you can file in july and nobody will give a fuck. I've done it ten times, I've never had a problem."

I don't care if you and your wife go to jail or lose your house (unless it gets sold at foreclosure auction and is a really good deal).

I just prefer that you not swagger around setting a bad example for the impressionable youth of Ip3, crutis borad at al., whose promise-filled lives have yet to descend into a bitter death spirals of ignorance, apathy and, yes, moral turpitude.

xp

Lose my house? Heh. At worst, I get a fine. The only question is how big.

Well I hope the house comes with a static IP address because if it wasn't looking like willful a couple of hours ago, any last reasonable doubt in the mind of any government investigator has definitely been removed. Good job.

Oh, come on felicidrama. We all know that the gov't is far from THAT good.

i just have this 2 say 2 u

smoke weed everyday

Oh yeah? Then how come this former government employee just cashed her giant refund check and you're still trolling?

xp Yeah why not

libcrypt is the graham of tax

luriqua probably filed last week

I love my tax preparer. He was the drummer for the Circle Jerks.

It's all probably irrelevant, since I'm pretty sure I'm due a refund. God I hope so.

Wife last year cashed in stock options and nixed all hopes of fun April bonus.

So this is really the first year I have any idea of how the house will impact real taxes.

Next.

I may just take one of the online filing services up to the point of marriage and use their estimate for an extension.

I have an accountant picked out for next year but she wasn't taking new clients for this year so that's what that drama's all about. Dun think she played drums for any punk bands tho.

Weird thing is that my wife delayed paying last year's taxes for like 8 months and I have absolutely no idea how in the hell she made that work out w/o us in jail.

Because the SOL for failure to file is 6 years and they'd rather have a slam dunk two-timer than an innocent one time mistake, genius.

You had me at "apologies." Not get that extension in or imona hafta smack you with the Tax Manual.

Thanks for the advices. I do appreciate it.

Did your wife forget to claim herself as a dependent?

The story is honestly to complex for me to explain here w/o causing Tom to start streaming blood from his eye gaskets so let me just say that I appreciate everyone's goodwill and cross yr fingers that I can keep outta jail, aimmy.

Only because I like the new nickname aimmy, I will. keep my fingers crossed.

i don't really get why i owe money, i've never owed money before. is this like some new thing, people owe money and that's why we're getting $600 in the mail later?

wtf

This is the first year in a few that I haven't owed money, actually.

nice

my bf owes so much htis year, like $1200 or something ridiculous! sucks

I love the internet:

- dude asks relative strangers for advice on serious tax shit
- people are like SERIOUS TAX SHIT IS SERIOUS
- dude LOLs and takes umbrage at folks losing their relative (albeit justified) shit while asking for more advice
- people are still like SERIOUSLY DUDE THIS IS SERIOUS WTF WITH THE FEET DRAGGING
- dude manages to backhandedly thank folks and lob lame zings @ the same time

Also, if this is the thread where Ally rips into me for not getting a mondo-sized refund, then, well, yeah, I should probably just stop withholding extra $$$ from my paycheck and instead put the money into a savings acct / money market acct / interest-accruing mattress.

rips into me for WHINING ABOUT not getting

I went online at the library and filed in 25 minutes.

Yeah, it took me very little time to figure out that I owe $675 that I can ill afford. Wheeeeeee! Being poor is so cool!