Taxes
04-12-2009, 06:35 PM
#31
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Location: Northern Indiana
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Filed mine back in January.. Used part of it for my flight to Vegas and holding a few bucks back just in case..In this economy you just never know anymore :roll: But a couple years I had to pay and trust me I was in line at the post office at 11:30 pm.. wasn't gonna rush to pay them :lol:
Sharon
Sharon
04-13-2009, 05:26 AM
#32
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,097
I always do ours fairly early, because we need to do that before I can file the FAFSA for my college students!
We try to make sure we are not paying in more than we owe them -- no point in giving the government a free loan. As someone else said, they would expect interest from us if we didn't pay it right away, but they hang on to our "overpayment" all year without paying a penny of interest to us.
We try to make sure we are not paying in more than we owe them -- no point in giving the government a free loan. As someone else said, they would expect interest from us if we didn't pay it right away, but they hang on to our "overpayment" all year without paying a penny of interest to us.
04-13-2009, 01:10 PM
#33
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay area
Posts: 223
Speaking of taxes...some of which are, but many are implemented at the federal, state, and local levels under the guise of "fees".
The "fee" I have to pay to the city for the dog license is NOT a fee. It's a TAX for having a dog.
The "fee" I pay to the city for a piece of paper to put near my front door, stating I've paid the city fee for having a whole-house alarm is a TAX! (The Chief of Police has publicly said officers will no longer respond to burglar alarms unless someone verifies, first, that a burglary is in progess...you don't even want to hear what I think about him and THAT!)
The"fee" I pay to the State of CA Dept. of Motor Vehicles to register my car is a TAX because I own a car. I'm still trying to figure out what actual service the DMV provides to citizens. It all looks like overhead to me.
Think about all those "fees" you play, folks.
Here's my thought on how to mitigate that. It's very simple, really.
Let's start a national movement to have election day changed from the first Tuesday in November to April 16. How do you think that change would impact the political campains...be they local, state, or federal.
As it is, the November elections occur almost 6 month to the day after April 15. If folks were to vote the day after they had paid their taxes, the politicians wouldn't be able to lie, cheat, trot out their smoke and mirrors' economic packages, and be able to convince a majority of the electorate that others aren't paying enough in taxes or paying their "fair share".
The pain of the tax would be all to fresh in folks' minds and they would vote accordingly, not having been lulled by smooth and targeted political rhetoric that promises to take care of everyone's problems!
Two-hundred and thirty-three years ago (1776) we had just ended a revolution protesting taxes that are miniscule in comparison to what gets sucked out of our pockets today!
Just think about what political campaigns and their immediate and long range costs would be to Americans if election day were April 16.
IMHO :roll:
The "fee" I have to pay to the city for the dog license is NOT a fee. It's a TAX for having a dog.
The "fee" I pay to the city for a piece of paper to put near my front door, stating I've paid the city fee for having a whole-house alarm is a TAX! (The Chief of Police has publicly said officers will no longer respond to burglar alarms unless someone verifies, first, that a burglary is in progess...you don't even want to hear what I think about him and THAT!)
The"fee" I pay to the State of CA Dept. of Motor Vehicles to register my car is a TAX because I own a car. I'm still trying to figure out what actual service the DMV provides to citizens. It all looks like overhead to me.
Think about all those "fees" you play, folks.
Here's my thought on how to mitigate that. It's very simple, really.
Let's start a national movement to have election day changed from the first Tuesday in November to April 16. How do you think that change would impact the political campains...be they local, state, or federal.
As it is, the November elections occur almost 6 month to the day after April 15. If folks were to vote the day after they had paid their taxes, the politicians wouldn't be able to lie, cheat, trot out their smoke and mirrors' economic packages, and be able to convince a majority of the electorate that others aren't paying enough in taxes or paying their "fair share".
The pain of the tax would be all to fresh in folks' minds and they would vote accordingly, not having been lulled by smooth and targeted political rhetoric that promises to take care of everyone's problems!
Two-hundred and thirty-three years ago (1776) we had just ended a revolution protesting taxes that are miniscule in comparison to what gets sucked out of our pockets today!
Just think about what political campaigns and their immediate and long range costs would be to Americans if election day were April 16.
IMHO :roll:
04-13-2009, 01:14 PM
#34
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 584
Originally Posted by Piedmont Quilter
Filed our taxes on 3/2/09. Got the federal refund on 3/13/09. Still have not seen the refund from the state of NC. Something about the state is running out of money and they are processing refunds as they have the money. Now - if I owed and and did not pay by 4/15/09, would they charge me interest? ABSOLUTLY!!!!!! But they own me and not going to pay me interest - just using the tax payer as a bank. Wish I could move to a state that does not have state income tax ~ ~ but I like living in NC too much to make that drastic a change.
PQ
PQ
04-13-2009, 01:36 PM
#36
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Belle Isle, Florida
Posts: 6,668
I agree with Cathe. Adjust your withholdings so the government doesn't hold your money all year long. Put the extra money in something that will pay interest. Or at the very least, reduce and eliminate any debt you may have. I wish there was a flat tax. It would be so much easier. This is a stressful time of year for so many people.
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