who else is in deep to the irs?

[mopinko]

$10K. :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[libhill]

1. 7 k

But, worked out a wage garnishment plan, paid off two back years already. Too bad I'm not rich like Willie Nelson. They'd forgive me most of it.

[forgethell]

5. Taxes are the price

we pay for a civilized society. Quitch'er bitchin'.

[libhill]

6. Taxes are

The price working people pay, to keep them bombs an' high tech weapons rolling off the assembly lines. The rich come off smelling like a rose- particularly under a Repuke mis - Administration.

[forgethell]

15. Can't have socialism

without taxes.

[libhill]

28. We don't have socialism

We have fascism -

[mopinko]

12. where do i sign up?

[tjwmason]

16. There's taxation and there's ridiculously over complex taxation

2 very different things.

The British tax code has been moving in the American direction for a few years now Gordon Brown (the chancellor) has a phenominal mind and can actually understand it all - the problem is that nobody else can.

This just feeds the accountancy profession.

[forgethell]

21. Well, elect different people

to Congress. Wait, no, that doesn't work

They all 'grow' in office. Getting fat off the workers. Dems and Repubs alike.

No matter what they tell you at voting time, they gotta feed the beast once they're in office.

[tjwmason]

22. Quite

but that does not make the system any less vexatious.

There's nothing wrong with complaining about a dodgy system.

[mopinko]

23. mine is simple

it is a deliberate plan to soak people like me. the upper middle, wage earner, no place to hide. no credit for me 3 kids, only 3/4 of my deductions allowed. i wouldn't mind, i swear, if it weren't for knowing that i am paying more than a lot of millionaires, and most oil companies.

[datasuspect]

35. they are the price most CORPORATIONS often DO NOT PAY

ever hear of negative net effective tax?

in other words a rebate, which is what most corporations get, in addition to legislation, eminent domain, price gouging, etc.

[forgethell]

42. Well, the

individiual consumer will pay all the corporate taxes in the end, anyway.

Still, the complication of the tax code is, in and of itself, unfair. Eminent domain for private parties is unfair.

[Mr. Flibble]

2. How do people end up owing so much?

Always give them extra by declaring no deductions; the chances of getting something back is likely and it compels you to live within your means (unless you get a shiny, pretty credit card like I had. :dunce: )

[mopinko]

4. hit a bad spot in the code.

partly under withheld, but hit the spot where deductions go away. no child credit, deductions reduced. got a bonus that was under withheld. all added up.
personally, i hate to get refunds, especially now. make them wait for that money.

[libhill]

7. Likewise -

Make too much money, didn't withhold enough, too poor to take advantage of Bushcos tax break, too well off to get any other types of deductions, that help lower income people. That translates to fucked.

[mopinko]

18. this phasing out deductions crap sucks

that's about half my bill. sock the middle is the name of the game.

[libhill]

31. Repukes

Have to hit the middle, so the rich can pay minimum taxes - that's the name of THEIR game. That's why I'd vote for -shudder- even Nader and the Greens, before I'd vote for a stinkin' Repuke.

[underpants]

19. Ours went up $1,000 from last year-bad spot here too

My wife made a little more money but we don't own a home yet and the child is on the way (July) so we owe ~$2,800 this year.

I guess we aren't living the 'Murkan dream the right way.

[Dave Reynolds]

3. $1200 this year,

but I have been on a payment plan for about 9 years.

[Floogeldy]

8. I think somebody's trolling for a finder's fee!

B-)

[mopinko]

9. huh?

[Floogeldy]

10. I said, "I think somebody's trolling for a finder's fee!"

B-)

[mopinko]

11. haha

i can read, i just have no idea what you are talking about.

[Floogeldy]

13. Sure you don't.

}(

[mopinko]

14. do you have some reason to accuse me

of whatever the hell you are accusing me of?

[Floogeldy]

29. No

Heh heh. B-)

[Taxloss]

17. Me.

But here we just call them the Inland Revenue.

[ImpeachBush]

20. $1700

Thanks to the damned contract position I had to take after being out of work for 6 months. I'm so glad that the company decided to hire me fulltimer permanent 6 weeks earlier than I expected.

This is the FIRST time I've not gotten a federal refund. Thanks for the tax cuts, Shrub. Meathead.

[RagingInMiami]

24. You're not trolling for a finder's fee, are you?

Just kidding.

[mopinko]

26. nah

i turned in Floogeldy, and that settled up my debt. i'm all good now.

[progressoid]

25. 4800 - - bite me bush

And I have a loophole hungry accountant.

To top it all off, I'm more in debt now than ever.

Christ - this year burns.

[movie_girl99]

27. we would have owed

but both bought new cars and the sales tax thing saved our butts. We broke even, didnt owe and didnt get anything back.

[Debi]

30. Taxes are at the accountant right now

But it will be a chunk-o-change :cry:

[masaka___]

32. There's always the option of war tax resitance.

You're morally justified.

[Midlodemocrat]

33. 30K

Royally, completely bites.

[mopinko]

34. ok, you win

were gonna hafta see what kind of payment plan we can get. to be honest, i am happy to keep it out of *'s hands.

[Midlodemocrat]

40. But I didn't want to win.

Hubby's company mistakenly underwithheld. How bad does that suck?

[mopinko]

44. very hoover-like

at least this was our own "mistake" sorta.

[Blue Diadem]

36. OMG!

:wow:

[amazona]

37. my friend just paid $90K

I saw the check. But I think it means he had a very, very good year to owe that much.

P.S. In fact, I think he was trying to impress me!

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[mopinko]

38. i think you are right

is he a hit man for the bfee?

[China_cat]

43. We just paid $2400

and no we are not having a very good year...in fact we are making only about 2/3 what we were making 5 years ago when we got a $1700 refund.

Oh, the $2400 is ON TOP of what was taken out in withholding taxes.

[WMliberal]

39. $98

:rant:

Nah, not really. I don't mind paying taxes. I'm usually able to keep it within $100 either way.

[Iterate]

41. Just wait until they privatize collections

As I understand it, the best people have been run out, leaving the sadists, the lame, and the over-worked. Underfunded and understaffed, struggling with archaic and patched systems, the solution will be to privatize, proving yet again that big governement doesn't work and the marketplace is a miracle. Plus, it could pay for itself if we just sell the data. What a deal.