So I get home and the wife says she’s got bad news: A letter from the IRS saying we owe $4,000 on our 2018 taxes.
Apparently, she sent all the right paperwork to our tax preparer, but when the preparer returned the completed forms she forgot to include one. My wife failed to check that and signed the return (and got me to sign off, trusting her) and sent it off.
So here we are. My wife is afraid I’m going to divorce her. (I’m not.)
Anyone have an experience like this? Do we have any recourse? That 4 Grand could buy a lot of Super Bowl swag. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chinaski:
4k is NOTHING compared to what we have had to pay before. 37K was the most we have ever owed. That one HURT. Biggest return ever was 28k.
Originally Posted by SuperBowl4:
Volunteers, just like the Americans who sign up to join our Armed Forces.
They get paid though, so bad example. Try again. So people that build roads are supposed to do that for free? Whos gonna pay for the material? Equipment? Not the people building the roads because they don't get paid, so they cant afford it.
People want to try to forget that the men that dumped that tea in Boston were not doing it because they hated paying taxes. They did it because they hated paying taxes to GB because GB wasn't using that money to improve the colonies and the colonies were expected to do what the king wanted them to do without being able to voice their concerns or have a part in deciding what was best for the colonies.
Taxes suck and they could figure out a better way to tax people, but they are necessary. [Reply]
I wonder what would happen if you could direct your taxes.
Say, Person A directs his taxes to go towards military items, bombs, planes, subs, maybe even a supersonic toilet seat.
Person B directs his taxes to infrastructure, roads bridges, sewer systems
Person C directs his taxes to Medicare, healthcare, education, etc.
I wonder what our budget would end up looking like. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
They get paid though, so bad example. Try again. So people that build roads are supposed to do that for free? Whos gonna pay for the material? Equipment? Not the people building the roads because they don't get paid, so they cant afford it.
People want to try to forget that the men that dumped that tea in Boston were not doing it because they hated paying taxes. They did it because they hated paying taxes to GB because GB wasn't using that money to improve the colonies and the colonies were expected to do what the king wanted them to do without being able to voice their concerns or have a part in deciding what was best for the colonies.
Taxes suck and they could figure out a better way to tax people, but they are necessary.
And they receive socialized healthcare. :shockedface:
I guess that guy is just volunteering for his employer. Let's make sure they know he is willing to work for free for them. [Reply]