Tomorrow would be a good time to prepare for the worst.

[jpak]

Beware the Ides of April.

or maybe not...

[Warpy]

1. I'll be waiting in line at the post office

Yes, I know I've got until Tuesday, but they're done and I want to get rid of them ASAP.

E filing? I can never locate the stupid PIN they issue every year, only the one for the year before they mistakenly send me before they send out the real one.

[jpak]

2. My tax dude sez I will owe taxes this year - for the first time ever

But its just a few hundred - not the few thousand (that I feared).

whew!

[Warpy]

3. I did something to a vertebrum over the holidays

and was too out of it during January and forgot to send my 4th quarter estimate in. I still get something from the Feds and pay less than the estimate to the state. And my income was UP. I don't get it.

Living on dividends and interest is weird and the taxes are weirder.

[jpak]

4. In my case - I was one number short of winning the state lottery

and when I cashed the ticket in - they didn't deduct any any taxes.

Oh woe is me!

[marybourg]

9. If you take RMDs from an IRA,

you can have the custodian withhold your approximate tax (must be at least 10% of the RMD)and it's considered withholding, not estimated, and the one payment relieves you of the need to make estimated payments during the year. If you have an IRA. And you're old enough to have to take RMD's.

[jpak]

13. It was a Roth - so no fed tax penalty

[marybourg]

14. I was addressing Warpy's need to make estimated payments. nt

[jpak]

16. My bad

[GulfCoast66]

5. Since you have a tax dude I am assuming you do not live in poverty(and I know...assuming!)

If I am correct, then you win! You got to use their money interest free for up to a year rather than having them use yours for free!

My perfect scenario is that I pay just under $100. Unfortunately I am too cheap to pay for a tax dude and end up getting around 1K back each year. And I am too lazy(dumb) to figure out how to jigger the numbers in my favor.

[jpak]

7. No - before Obamacare, I always filed !040EZ

But after turning 59.5 and buying a (cheap) house with IRA cash, I was flummoxed with 1040-whatever.

and I bought a semi-winning lotto ticket

which put my ACA subsidies into parts unknown.

so I needed professional help.

[GulfCoast66]

10. Wow

Sometimes life give us things we just can't make up. I use a good computer program to do mine, but I am pretty sure it does not cover lotto tickets plus ACA and just buying a house after cashing in my IRA!

I hope your tax dude is good because that sounds like moving to brazil complicated to me!!

Good luck.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Congratulations on the sem-winning lotto ticket.

I doubt it could have happened to a nicer person.

[jpak]

19. Awww

[marybourg]

11. If you are employed, fill out a new W-2

and divide $1000 by the # of your yearly paychecks. Ask for the resulting amount to be taken from each paycheck. There should be line for that. Why let tRump keep your money for up to 16 months?

[GulfCoast66]

22. You are obviously quicker than I!!

Because I would need a note pad, a pencil with an eraser, a calculator and 3 hours to figure out what you just wrote!

Actually our taxes are easy-peasy. No kids to deduct, house paid for, investments all tax deferred and we are not yet drawing. Defined pension and company provided health care for both or us. Very little interest income as it all rolls back into the 401K's or Roth IRA's.

Took me 30 minutes with a pretty simple tax program.

Have a nice evening.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Tax dudes can be a very good idea.

I've used one for some years now. My taxes are sufficiently complicated, and my time is sufficiently worthwhile, that I'll happily pay someone to do them for me. Of course, what I consider complicated, others here would think easy-peasy.

Another nice thing about having a tax dude is that having the appointment to go in to get it done, means I pull everything together for that appointment, and don't wait until the very last minute to do them myself.

If you'd get a whole lot more money back by using a tax dude, then you should. Just my opinion.

[jpak]

18. Tax dude s local and charges $69

But after my recent move, and with a new PO address, finding all the docs was a nightmare.

Luckily, I found the right shoe box - whew!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. It has taken me far too long,

but I simply have a file folder that is labelled: Tax stuff and the year. It's in pencil, so I just change the year and re-use the folder.

Everything that actually is relevant gets attached to my forms, and anything that turned out not to be relevant I just toss. Misplacing stuff is what I do best, so this has helped a great deal.

[Initech]

6. My taxes are done and filed. Refund pending.

[jpak]

8. We hates-es you

[VOX]

12. It's my birthday. Mercifully, it's also Jackie Robinson Day.

When all MLB team players wear #42. So I focus on that, rather than income tax.

[jpak]

20. Wow - you have the same BD as Dear Leader

hahahahaha

[VOX]

21. Hahaha thanks bigly!

I return my focus to Jackie Robinson.

[jpak]

23. alerting

[VOX]

24. Cut that out!